For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
PERICLESThose who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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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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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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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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