Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLESWe Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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