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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Pericles

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Glory Goodness Ill Men Talk Women
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
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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Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
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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Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth
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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Humor Interest Politics
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
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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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
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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Death Grief Loss Want
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner

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