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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

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
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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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Disgrace Failure Rob
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
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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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Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
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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Humor Interest Politics
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
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
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
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
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
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea

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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