Pericles

Quotes by Pericles

• Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

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• Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

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• 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 then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

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

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• 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 then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

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• Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

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

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• Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

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

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

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• The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

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

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

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• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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• 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 visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

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• What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

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• Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

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• Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

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• Time is the wisest counselor.

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