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Greek Statesman Inspirational Quotes (56)

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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Demosthenes
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
Demosthenes
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
Demosthenes
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
Pericles
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes
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She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.
Pericles
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Demosthenes
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
Demosthenes
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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.
Pericles
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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.
Pericles
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The marketplace is democratic.
Pericles
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes
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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
Pericles
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Demosthenes
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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
Pericles
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Demosthenes
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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.
Pericles
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
Demosthenes
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If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
Pericles
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