Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
PERICLES
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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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