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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

The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
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
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
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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Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame
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
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
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
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
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
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

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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