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1. "We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining the struggle against it. Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike any other nation, regarding him who takes no part in these duties not as unambitious but as useless, we Athenians are able to judge at all events if we cannot originate, and 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 all." ~ Pericles
2. "Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time." ~ Pericles
3. "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." ~ Pericles
4. "[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
5. "Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it." ~ Pericles
6. "Time is the wisest counselor of all." ~ Pericles
7. "Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all." ~ Pericles
8. "For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial." ~ Pericles
9. "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
10. "A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill." ~ Pericles
11. "Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones." ~ Pericles
12. "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
13. "We do not imitate, but are a model to others." ~ Pericles
14. "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

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