I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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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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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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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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