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Pericles
Greek
Statesman
About the author
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Monuments
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Time
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,
Greek
Statesman
#Men
#Trees
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
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,
Greek
Statesman
#Time
#Will
#Men
#Grave
Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Time
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,
Greek
Statesman
#Love
#Mind
#Extravagance
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Interest
#Politics
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Power
#Ideas
#Knowledge
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Freedom
#Courage
#Possession
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Earth
#Men
#Famous
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Men
#Sea
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Men
#Woman
#Glory
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.
Pericles,
Greek
Statesman
#Earth
#Men
#Symbol