Aesop Quotes - Page 7

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• If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

  Aesop

  Opportunity, Waiting, Want

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• Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

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  Adversity, Men, Littles

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is always someone worse off than yourself.

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  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

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  Fate, Masters

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.110

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• Good things come in small packages.

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  Humility, Nsa, Good Things

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

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• Necessity knows no law.

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  Law, Knows

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.62, Aesop

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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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  Thinking, Giving, Gold

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.58, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

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  Wise, Air, Innocent

  Aesop (2011). “Aesop's Fables”, p.18, Collector's Library

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• Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

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  Please

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

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  Wish

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.36, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Self-help is the best help

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  Life, Self, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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• The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

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  Anger, Opportunity, Rage

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.122, GENERAL PRESS

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• Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

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  Guests, Welcome, Uninvited Guests

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.106

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• Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

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  Lying, Grieving, Gold

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.30, Aesop

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• Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

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  Common, Fortune, Ups & Downs

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

  Aesop

  Guests, Welcome, Uninvited Guests

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.37, Penguin

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• It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Skills

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

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• All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.

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  Needs, Littles

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• If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

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  Brain, Half, Beard

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

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  Enemy, Society, Soar

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.48, Pelekanos Books

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• Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

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  Giving, Advice, Crisis

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.64, GENERAL PRESS

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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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  Dust, Tree, Wheels

  "The Fly on the Wheel". Fable by Aesop,

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• It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

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  Wisdom, Preparation, Today

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

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• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

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  Wisdom, Literature, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

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• A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

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  Men, Trying, Sides

  "Aesops Fables: A Collection of Aesop's Fables".

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