What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLESTrees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
More Pericles Quotes
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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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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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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 difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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