We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
PericlesTime as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.
PericlesThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PericlesRemember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.
Pericles