Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Pericles
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
thetimes time
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. 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.
wonder wonders age
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
mind
men
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
symbols men
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