Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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.
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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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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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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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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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