Pericles Quotes

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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…
• Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
• 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…
• Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
• I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man…
• It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
• Better die standing than live kneeling.
• Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
• Time is the wisest counselor of all.
• Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
• What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
• Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
• 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…
• It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
• Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
• 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…
• Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
• 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.
• For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
• Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

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