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.
PERICLESYour 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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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