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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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