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Of what avail to spy the heavens out, When you can't see what's here on earth about?
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The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.
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Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
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If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
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Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.
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A frog once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him, "How can you pretend to prescribe for others when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?"
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Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.
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Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most
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All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
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He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.
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If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
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Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
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There can be little liking where there is no likeness.
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We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.
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Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
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Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.
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Woe is me! I foolishly abandoned what I had in order to grab hold of a phantom, and thus I ended up losing both that phantom and what I had to begin with.
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
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If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
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Any number of lies will serve an rich and evil man.
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The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him.
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
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Fine clothes may disguise, but foolish words will disclose a fool.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Born:
620 BC
Died:
564 BC
(aged 56)
Bio:
Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
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