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

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time. — Pericles

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. — Pericles

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

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

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

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

And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles] — Michelle Moran

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

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

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

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

my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

and subordinate groups are defined along ethnic and/or racial lines, and where the relationship is established and maintained to serve the interests — Peter Pericles Trifonas

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

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. — Pericles

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

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

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. — Pericles

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. — Virginia Woolf

[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. — Pericles

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

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas. — Thomas Steinbeck

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. — Robert Aris Willmott

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time. — Pericles

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

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. — Pericles

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

Better die standing than live kneeling. — Pericles

Time is the wisest counselor of all. — Pericles

The marketplace is democratic. — Pericles

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

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

Time is the wisest counsellor of all — Pericles

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

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

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

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. — Pericles

She speaks, my lord, that may be, hath endured a grief Might equal yours, if both were justly weighed. — William Shakespeare

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

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

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