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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.

Pericles

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLES

Imitate Model Reality
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLES

Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
Better die standing than live kneeling.
PERICLES

Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
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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Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Disgrace Failure Rob
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
PERICLES

Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong

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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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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