For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
PERICLESFuture ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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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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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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