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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.

Pericles

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Glory Goodness Ill Men Talk Women
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
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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Death Grief Loss Want
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise

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