Quotes from Pericles

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

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

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

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

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.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against 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.

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.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

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.

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

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

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

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

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.