black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
PERICLES

Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PERICLES

Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
PERICLES

Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES

Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
PERICLES

Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLES

Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLES

Imitate Model Reality
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.
PERICLES

Death Grief Loss Want
As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PERICLES

Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLES

Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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.
PERICLES

Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
PERICLES

Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
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

Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
The marketplace is democratic.
PERICLES

Demorcracy Market One Liner
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLES

Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
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.
PERICLES

Crave Grave King Men Parents Time

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Pericles Quotes