For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
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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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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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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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.
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