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.
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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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 are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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