Pericles Quotes
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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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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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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
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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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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
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All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.
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Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. 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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.