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Vices are their own punishment.
AesopAesop The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.
AesopAesop Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
AesopAesop Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
AesopAesop A man is known by the company he keeps.
AesopAesop United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.
AesopAesop He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
AesopAesop Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.
AesopAesop A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
AesopAesop The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
AesopAesop Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
AesopAesop A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.
AesopAesop Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
AesopAesop Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
AesopAesop Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
AesopAesop Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.
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Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
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