It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
PERICLESIt 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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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against 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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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