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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

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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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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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Death Grief Loss Want
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
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
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
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
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

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