Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
PERICLESAs for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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