All Pericles Quotes
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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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
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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
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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.
Pericles
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles
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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.
Pericles
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A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
Pericles
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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.
Pericles
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles
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