Quotes By Pericles
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles
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.
Pericles
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