Aesop Quotes

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While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

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In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

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O raven, you do have a voice but no brains to go with it!

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The lamb... began to follow the wolf in sheep's clothing.

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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

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It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

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No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

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A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

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Be careful of rich and powerful men for they will do nothing for your sake.

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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

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The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

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Spot the falsehood of history and find out the truth.

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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

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Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

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You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

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Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.

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