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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!
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It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.
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Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.
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Every truth has two sides; it is well to look at both before we commit ourselves to either.
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Since you rejected what was good in order to get something bad, you had better put up with it—or else something even worse might happen.
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It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
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If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
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Then one day there really was a wolf, but when the boy shouted they didn't believe him.
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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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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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