Pericles Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.”

“All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.”

“It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.”

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.”

“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.”

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

“Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.”

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

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

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