Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
PERICLESIt is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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