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.
PERICLESJust because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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 more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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