Aesop Quotes - Page 6

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• Don't make much ado about nothing.

  Aesop

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

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• Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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  Educational, Sheep, Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

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• Every man for himself.

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  Men, Differences, Every Man For Himself

  Munro Leaf, Aesop (1979). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version”

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• Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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  Kissing, Faithful, Enemy

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• Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

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  Delay, Blame, Sometimes

  Aesop (2000). “Aesop's fables”

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• Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

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  People, Misfortunes

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• A kindness is never wasted

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  Kindness

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.243, First Avenue Editions

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• The value is in the worth, not in the number.

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  Numbers, Values

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• If words suffice not, blows must follow.

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  Blow, Ifs

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

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  Disease, Fables, Remedy

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.50, Aesop

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• The great do not always prevail.

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  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

  Aesop

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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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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  Wisdom, Blow, Men

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

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  Life, Wisdom, Winning

  Aesop (1989). “Aesop's Fables”, Outlet

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

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  Reality, Focus And Concentration, Shadow

  "Aesop's Fables".

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• We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

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  Conflict, Should

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

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• He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

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  Life, Share, Danger

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.41, Lulu.com

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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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  Hair, Water, Wish

  Aesop (1850). “Fables of AEsop and others”, p.300, Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [and 18 others] ...

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• Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

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  Mean, Evil, Benefits

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

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  Enemy, Easier, Oneself

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• The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

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  Mean, Eagles, Arrows

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• Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

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  Blow, Wind, Looks

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.4, GENERAL PRESS

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• The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

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  Life, Hero, Brave

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

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  Sweet, Sea, Rivers

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• Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

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  Animal, Lions, May

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