Pericles Quotes

Time is the wisest counselor.

Pericles

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Pericles

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Pericles

We do not imitate but are a model to others.

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Master I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

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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.

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[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

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

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Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

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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.

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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.

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

Pericles