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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Pericles

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLES

Imitate Model Reality
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES

Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
PERICLES

Glory Goodness Ill Men Talk Women
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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Chase Poverty Shame Work
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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Death Grief Loss Want
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake

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