What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLESIt is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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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.
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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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