We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLESWait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of 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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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