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
teacher time lessons
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.
time timing-and-life counselor
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
accept aim burden envy great hatred others rule taken themselves time
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.
gives parent time
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.
real cities mind
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.
judging may able
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
grief loss long
For 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.
work able poverty
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.
democratic marketplace
The marketplace is democratic.
dark men ideas
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.
hero heart land
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.
memories men memorial
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
mean deceit show-me
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
life-and-love waiting counselor
Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.