The marketplace is democratic.
PERICLES
Trees, 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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The marketplace is democratic.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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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 king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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