Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
PERICLESIt is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
More Pericles Quotes
-
-
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.
PERICLES -
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
PERICLES -
For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
PERICLES -
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
PERICLES -
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLES -
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.
PERICLES -
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES -
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.
PERICLES -
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
PERICLES -
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLES -
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
PERICLES -
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLES -
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.
PERICLES -
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
PERICLES -
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLES