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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Pericles

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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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Humor Interest Politics
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Glory Goodness Ill Men Talk Women
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
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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Death Grief Loss Want
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake

As 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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As 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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