In private matters everyone ...

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.
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 Pericles

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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Not 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.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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For 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.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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