black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

Pericles

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLES

Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
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.
PERICLES

Chase Poverty Shame Work
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
PERICLES

Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
PERICLES

Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
PERICLES

Judgment Policy
The marketplace is democratic.
PERICLES

Demorcracy Market One Liner
As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PERICLES

Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PERICLES

Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
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.
PERICLES

Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
PERICLES

Disgrace Failure Rob
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
PERICLES

Beautiful Love Mind Soft
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLES

Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLES

Imitate Model Reality
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES

Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLES

Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
PERICLES

Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Pericles Quotes