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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Pericles

Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
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
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
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time 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
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
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
PERICLES

Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
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
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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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Chase Poverty Shame Work
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
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

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