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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

Pericles

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
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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Death Grief Loss Want
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Glory Goodness Ill Men Talk Women
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise

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