Quotes by Pericles

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

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”

“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.”

“Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”

“Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.”

“[F]or 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.”

“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”

“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.”

“For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.”

“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Time is the wisest counselor.”

“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.”

“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.”