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

Pericles

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
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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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Chase Poverty Shame Work
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
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
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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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision

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