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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
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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Humor Interest Politics
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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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Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
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
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
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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Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle

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