What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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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 difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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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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