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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Pericles

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching 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
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
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
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
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
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
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
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
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Disgrace Failure Rob

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