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

Pericles

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Disgrace Failure Rob
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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Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
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
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
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
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
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
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
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power

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