Aesop Quotes - Page 2

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• Facts speak plainer than words

  Aesop

  Facts, Speak

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Love can tame the wildest.

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  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.72, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

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  Hurt, Fables, Cry

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Penguin

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• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Truth, Two Sides

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28

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• Please all, and you will please none.

  Aesop

  Business, Literature, Fables

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.63, Pelekanos Books

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• Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

  Aesop

  Regard, Consequence

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

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  Adversity, Tests, Sincerity

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Penguin

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• Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

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  Real, Men, Originality

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.81, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Pride goes before destruction.

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  Pride, Destruction

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

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  Family, Teamwork, Father

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• Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

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  Fake Friends, Fables, Ruined

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.18, GENERAL PRESS

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• Persuasion is better than force.

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  Life, Persuasion, Force

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.22, GENERAL PRESS

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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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  Running, Risk, Trying

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Don't cry over spilt milk.

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  Regret, Dessert First, Milk

  "The Milkmaid and Her Pail". Fable by Aesop published in "Aesop's Fables For Children", 1919.

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• Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

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  Life, May, Forgotten

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.7, Pelekanos Books

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• He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

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  Hurt, Revenge, Plot

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• Implementation beats oration.

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  Work, Beats, Implementation

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• A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

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  Life, Disguise, Persons

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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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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  Farewell, Confusion, Childhood

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.19, First Avenue Editions

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• If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

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  Believe, Fables, Companion

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.308, Aesop

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

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  Happiness, Attitude, Discontent

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.83

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• Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

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  Silly, Clothes, May

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

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• He that has many friends, has no friends.

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  No Friends, Popularity, Many Friends

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Lulu Press, Inc

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• An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

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  Strength, Strong, Wind

  Aesop, Lloyd W. Daly (1961). “Aesop without morals: the famous fables, and a life of Aesop, newly translated and edited by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated by Grace Muscarella”

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• Most arguments are useless.

  Aesop

  Life, Useless, Argument

  Graeme Kent, Eric Kincaid, Aesop (1990). “Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables”, Checkerboard Pr

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