Better die standing than live kneeling.
PERICLESThe marketplace is democratic.
More Pericles Quotes
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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