Pericles Quotes

• Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire ... Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
• But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
• 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.
• Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
• What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
• Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
• Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
• If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
• Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
• Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
• Make up your mind that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
• 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.
• Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

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