It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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.
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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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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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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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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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Those 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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