Creative Quotations from Pericles (495BC-429BC)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Pericles
(495BC-429BC) born on

Greek statesman.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave."

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
R:	"Part of the funeral oration, 430 BC, for the dead of the first year of the Peloponnesian War. Attrib. in Histories," Bk. II, Ch. 40 (Thucydides)"
A:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N:	"In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips," MCR software, 1995."
K:	History of the Peloponnesian War