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.
PERICLESNot 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.
More Pericles Quotes
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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