Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLESWe Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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