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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

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 shameful thing yet.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

[F]or 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.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

The marketplace is democratic.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

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.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.