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.
PERICLESTime is the wisest counsellor of all.
More Pericles Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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 right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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