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

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

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

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

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles

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

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.
Pericles

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