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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God has made you, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether they are praising you or criticizing you.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Taking everything together then, I declare that our city is an education to Greece.
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We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
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Born:
494 BC
Died:
429 BC
(aged 65)
Bio:
Pericles was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
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