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Pericles
495 BC - 429 BC
Nationality: Greek
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: Greek Statesman

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

   

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

   

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

   

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

   

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

   

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

   

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

    Topics: Courage

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.

   

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

   

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

   

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time.

   

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.

   

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

   

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

   

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