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Men Quotes by Pericles
- Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
- 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…
- A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
- Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Take these men as your example, like them remember that prosperity is for the free, and freedom is the sure possession of those who have…
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