A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
PERICLESFor 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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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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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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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