The marketplace is democratic.
PERICLESYour empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
More Pericles Quotes
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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