Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you. Pericles More Quotes by Pericles More Quotes From Pericles Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again Pericles growing-up cutting men 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. Pericles stories men reality We do not imitate, but are a model to others. Pericles models reality It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears. Pericles difficult ears arguing The marketplace is democratic. Pericles marketplace democratic Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. Pericles squash mind beautiful Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all. Pericles lessons time teacher I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals. Pericles greatness men country We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it. Pericles poverty poor struggle 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. Pericles dark men ideas Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. Pericles show-me deceit mean Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it. Pericles able judging may To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength. Pericles real cities mind We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true. Pericles delight fall needs A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill. Pericles glory littles men 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 heart men country Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. Pericles inspiring men memories 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 land hero heart For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger. Pericles political men children Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet. Pericles poverty able work
