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

Pericles

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
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
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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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Disgrace Failure Rob
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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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
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
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
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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
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
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

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

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