Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLESFor 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.
More Pericles Quotes
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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 famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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