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The marketplace is democratic.

Pericles

The marketplace is democratic.
PERICLES

Demorcracy Market One Liner
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
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
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
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
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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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Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
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
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
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
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
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

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