Pericles Quotes (19 Quotes)

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time.

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

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.

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

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

Time is the wisest counselor.

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 heroes have the whole earth for their tomb.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Wait for the wisest of all councilors, time.

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

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

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.

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

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

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

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

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

The magnitude of our city draws the produce of the world into our harbor, so that to the Athenian the fruits of other countries are as familiar a luxury as those of his own.