There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.
AESOPBetter beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
More Aesop Quotes
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The more you want, the more you stand to lose.
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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
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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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Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.
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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
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Vices are their own punishment.
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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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Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.
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All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
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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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Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
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United we stand; divided we fall.
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