I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLESFuture ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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