Quotes by Pericles

Pericles

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

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Littles

Men

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

Able

Judging

May

An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man ‘minds his own business’. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

Dark

Ideas

Men

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Needs

Poverty

Real

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Dies

Kneeling

Standing

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Inspiring

Memories

Men

For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Children

Men

Political

For 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.

Grief

Long

Loss

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

Heart

Hero

Land

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

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Heart

Men

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Quotes by Pericles

Pericles

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

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

For 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.

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

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