Pericles Quotes

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• Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
• Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
• Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
• Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and…
• 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…
• For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there…
• Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has…
• A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
• Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again
• Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.
• 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…
• We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
• 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…
• For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in…
• For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
• Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
• We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he…
• Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
• An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business…

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