Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
AESOPMen often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
More Aesop Quotes
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The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
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Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
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After all is said and done, more is said than done.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new, lose both.
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Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.
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Little friends may prove great friends.
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I can’t be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.
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You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
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If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
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Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults.
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Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
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Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
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Do nothing without regard to the consequences.
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A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.
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Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.
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Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
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There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.
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A man who looks to his friends for help will take his time about a thing.
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