Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLESWhat you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
More Pericles Quotes
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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