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

Pericles

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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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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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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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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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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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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