There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.
AESOPMen often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
More Aesop Quotes
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Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
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What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
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All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
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Those who suffer most cry out the least.
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Please all, and you will please none.
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Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
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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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Better no rule than cruel rule.
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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
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No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.
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A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.
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Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
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Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
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Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.
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