Better die standing than live kneeling.
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.
More Pericles Quotes
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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