Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
PERICLESTrees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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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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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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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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