As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PericlesTrees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again
PericlesThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PericlesFor grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
Pericles