Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against 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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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 is the wisest counsellor of all.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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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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