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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Pericles

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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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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
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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