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The marketplace is democratic.

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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.
PERICLES

Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLES

Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLES

Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLES

Imitate Model Reality
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
PERICLES

Chase Poverty Shame Work
Better die standing than live kneeling.
PERICLES

Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLES

Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
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.
PERICLES

Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
The marketplace is democratic.
PERICLES

Demorcracy Market One Liner
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
PERICLES

Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
PERICLES

Judgment Policy
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES

Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLES

Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
PERICLES

Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
PERICLES

Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
PERICLES

Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation

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