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.
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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Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
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