Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
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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 as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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