Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLESIt is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
More Pericles Quotes
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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