Pericles Men Quotations

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

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.

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

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

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.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

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.

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

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.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

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

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.