It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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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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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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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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