Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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