What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLESTime is the wisest counsellor of all.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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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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