Not to be able to bear ...

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.
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.
 Pericles

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton

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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
 Pericles
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.
 Pericles
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
 Pericles
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.
 Pericles
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
 Pericles