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