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

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
Better die standing than live kneeling.
PERICLES

Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLES

Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
PERICLES

Deceit Fair Show
For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
PERICLES

Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth
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.
PERICLES

Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
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
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
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
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
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
PERICLES

Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
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.
PERICLES

Death Grief Loss Want
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLES

Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLES

Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
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

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