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.
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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The marketplace is democratic.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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 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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge 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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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