For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
PERICLESThe 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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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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