Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
PERICLESFreedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
PERICLESThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PERICLESWait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
PERICLESFishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLESFor a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
PERICLESI am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLESWe do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLESFor 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.
PERICLESAs for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PERICLESTime is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLESThe 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.
PERICLESHaving knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
PERICLESInstead 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.
PERICLESThe marketplace is democratic.
PERICLESWe Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLESTime 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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