Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
AESOPA man is known by the company he keeps.
More Aesop Quotes
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Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.
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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
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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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Vices are their own punishment.
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Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
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Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.
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All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
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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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Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
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To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.
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Please all, and you will please none.
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Labour is the source of every blessing.
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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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