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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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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Mind, Atheism

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

  Joseph Addison

  Instruction, Severity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.24

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• Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

  Aesop

  Life, Appearance, Poor

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Wisdom, Religious

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

  Aesop

  Adversity, Men, Littles

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

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• Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

  Aesop

  Disease, Remedy

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

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• Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

  Aesop

  Life, Wise, Men

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.163, Penguin

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• Little by little does the trick.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Relaxation, Doe

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.56, Pelekanos Books

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• The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

  Tom Clancy

  Conceited, Ego, Mind

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.254, Penguin

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• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Literature, Eggs In One Basket

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

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Fear, Philosophy

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1971). “Saint Thomas Aquinas”

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• Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

  Sappho

  Love, Fantasy, Weavers

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

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Preparation, Today

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

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• Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Knowledge, Eye, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

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• There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Self, Deceit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.525, Delphi Classics

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• After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Drama, Reading, Passion

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• It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, India, Chess

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

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

  Aesop

  Believe, Companion, You Choose

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

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• Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Winning, Race, Tortoises

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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, Praying

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

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• Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

  Aesop

  Life, Character, Individuality

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• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  Aesop

  Being Yourself, Bird, Aviation

  "The Jay and the Peacock". A fable by Aesop,

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• India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

  Lin Yutang

  Teacher, Philosophy, Animal

  "The wisdom of China and India". Book by Lin Yutang, p. 3-4, 1942.

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