For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
PERICLESFishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of 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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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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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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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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