Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PERICLESFreedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
More Pericles Quotes
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of 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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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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 Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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