It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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