Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Interpretation
Famous individuals leave a lasting legacy that spans across the world.
This quote by Pericles highlights the idea that those who achieve greatness or notoriety have their influence and memory extend beyond their immediate surroundings. Their contributions and actions resonate through time and geography, making them immortal in the eyes of society and history.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about historical figures and their lasting impact on society.
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
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.
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.
For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it.
What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.
I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
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