Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
PERICLESIt is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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