Pericles Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

  Pericles

  Children, Men, Political

• For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

  Pericles

  Country, Heart, Men

• I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

  Pericles

  Country, Greatness, Men

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