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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

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
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
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
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise

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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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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