Pericles
Pericles
Pericleswas arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age— specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionStatesman
children men political
For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
beautiful mind our-love
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
thinking levels
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
country memories war
Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.
reality models
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
wise wisdom block
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
ears arguing difficult
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
ideas clarity lacking
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
age wonder
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
men stories earth
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.
growing-up cutting men
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again
kneeling standing dies
Better die standing than live kneeling.
sweet brave terrible
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.
time timing-and-life counselor
Time is the wisest counselor of all.