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.
PERICLESWhat you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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