The marketplace is democratic.
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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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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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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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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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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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