Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
PERICLESI am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
More Pericles Quotes
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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