Quotes from Pericles

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

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

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

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.

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Time is the wisest counselor.

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

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

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

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.

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

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

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

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.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.