What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLESWhat you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLESJust because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
PERICLESWe do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLESIt is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
PERICLESTime is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
PERICLESFor famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
PERICLESFor 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.
PERICLESInstead 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.
PERICLESWe Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLESYour empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
PERICLESWe Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLESIt is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
PERICLESFishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLESThe marketplace is democratic.
PERICLESBetter die standing than live kneeling.
PERICLESFreedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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