Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
PERICLESThose who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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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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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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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 difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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