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.
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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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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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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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus 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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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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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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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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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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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