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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
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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Humor Interest Politics
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
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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Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
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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Chase Poverty Shame Work

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

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