We 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.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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For 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.
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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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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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