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.
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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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