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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Pericles

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
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
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
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
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
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
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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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Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
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
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
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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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone

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