Aesop Quotes - Page 3

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• The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

  Aesop

  Loss, Blessing, Desire

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

  Aesop

  Safety, Literature, Causes

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.190, The Floating Press

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• Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness

  Aesop

  Kindness, Fun, Kids

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.63, First Avenue Editions

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• In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

  Aesop

  Pain, Being Thankful, Wicked

  "Aesop’s Fables".

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• A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

  Aesop

  Humanity, Comfort

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

  Aesop

  Giving, Coward, Matter

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.12, Penguin

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• You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

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  Honesty, People, Fool

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

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• A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

  Aesop

  Hands, Tree, Needs

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.180, Aesop

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• Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

  Aesop

  Life, Trust, Wisdom

  Aesop, Joseph Jacobs (2004). “Best loved fables of Aesop”

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• None but those who work are entitled to eat.

  Aesop

  Work, Entitled

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.43, Lulu.com

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• Zeal should not outrun discretion.

  Aesop

  Should, Zeal, Outrun

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.17, Lulu.com

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

  Aesop

  Life, Prayer, Fables

  Aesop (1913). “Æsop's fables: an anthology of the fabulists of all countries”, J. M. Dent & Sons, ltd.

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• Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

  Aesop

  Life, Place In Life

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• He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

  Aesop

  Strife, Discord

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.87

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

  Aesop

  Life, Suffering, Injury

  Aesop (1809). “Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists: In Three Books”, p.240

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• In union there is strength.

  Aesop

  Strength, Teamwork, Community

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

  Aesop

  Life, Children, Parent

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.49, Aesop

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• Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

  Aesop

  Trying, May, Impossible

  Aesop (2007). “Aesop's Fables”, p.178, Penguin UK

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• The gods help them who help themselves.

  Aesop

  Self Esteem, Helping, God Help

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• Little friends may prove great friends.

  Aesop

  Life, Friendship, May

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.50, Penguin

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• Acquaintance softens prejudice.

  Aesop

  Prejudice, Acquaintance

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.146

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• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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  Peace, Stress, Food

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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  Men, Feel Good, Enemy

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.107

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• The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

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  Kindness, Ungrateful, Ingratitude

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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  Fear, Conceited, Self

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.23, Pelekanos Books

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