Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLESThose who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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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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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