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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge 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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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