Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
PERICLESIt is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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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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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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 wisest counsellor of all.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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.
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