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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

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
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
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
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
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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 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
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
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
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
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
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

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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