...Pericles told his fellow citizens in Athens some twenty-three hundred and fifty years ago held true; "To avow poverty with us is no disgrace; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it." They came through the open doorway, these elderly men, and put their names, adding also their ages,...

...manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is real use for it. To acknowledge poverty with us is no disgrace; the true disgrace...even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who shows no Pericles British Museum, London The...

...manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is real use for it. To acknowledge poverty with us is no disgrace; the true disgrace...even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who shows no interest in public affairs, not as a...

...of the beautiful, though simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because...he takes care of his own household, and even those engaged in business have a fair idea of politics. "The great impediment to right action is, in our...

...employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty is with us no disgrace; the true disgrace is in doing nothing...even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a...

...a funeral oration delivered in honor of those who fell in the first year of the Peloponnesian War: own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a...

...a funeral oration delivered in honor of those who fell in the first year of the Peloponnesian War: own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a...

...nothing to avoid it An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of liiown household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have :i very fair idea of politics. We regard a man who takes no interest in pul>li<affairs, not as a harmless,...

...unmindful of the worth and dignity of labor. To avow poverty [says the former in the funeral oration] is no disgrace; the true disgrace is in doing nothing...he takes care of his own household; and even those who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. Notwithstanding, however, the occasional...

...we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us...care of his own household; and even those of us who arc engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest...