Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLESWe do not imitate, but are a model to others.
More Pericles Quotes
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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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