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If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity
AesopAesop Necessity is the mother of invention.
AesopAesop Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
AesopAesop Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
AesopAesop 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.
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