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Aesop Quote - Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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

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No gratitude from the wicked.
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Gratitude One Liner Wicked
Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one’s nature.
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Deny Impossible Nature Try
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
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Applaud Imitation Men Reality
Vices are their own punishment.
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One Liner Punishment Revenge Vice
United we stand; divided we fall.
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Divide Fall Friendship One Liner Stand Team Work United
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.
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Argument Convince Courage Coward Giving Matter
Please all, and you will please none.
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Inspirational One Liner Please
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten
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Broken Heart Forget Forgiveness Injury One Liner
Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
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Freedom One Liner Slave Strave
You can fool people some of the time, but you can’t fool them all of the time.
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Fools Honesty People Time
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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Misfortune Wise
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
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Destroy Evil Growth Ruin Seed
If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity
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Business Failure Lose Opportunity Patience Right Wait Want
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.
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Attempt Hide Mask Truth
It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.
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Future Inspirational Preparation Present Want
Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
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Blow Commitment Inspirational Look Wind Yourself
I can’t be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.
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Blow Breath Cold Friendship Hot Man Mask
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
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Danger One Liner Silence Time Wise
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
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Inside One Liner Outside Poor Show Substitute Worth
Labour is the source of every blessing.
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Blessing Labor One Liner Source
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
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Appearance Look Mind
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
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Critical Hard Time Moments Need Powerful Struggle Weak
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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Different Lion Quite Sculptor Statue
Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.
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Future Need Neglect Plenty Time Wasted Time
There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.
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Fairy Tale Goodness Human
Little friends may prove great friends.
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Friendship Greatness One Liner Prove
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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Certain Doubt Enemy Friendship Man Meet Worse

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