Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
AESOPThe more you want, the more you stand to lose.
More Aesop Quotes
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Facts speak plainer than words.
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A man is known by the company he keeps.
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One story sounds good until another is told.
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Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.
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United we stand; divided we fall.
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Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
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All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
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Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
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Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
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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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There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
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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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Little friends may prove great friends.
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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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