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.
PERICLESTime is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
PERICLESTrees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLESIt is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
PERICLESInstead 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.
PERICLESWe do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLESWho makes the fairest show means most deceit.
PERICLESYour empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
PERICLESWe Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLESThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PERICLESFuture ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
PERICLESIt is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
PERICLESFishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLESI am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLESTime as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLESThe marketplace is democratic.
PERICLESHaving knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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