Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
AESOPIt is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
More Aesop Quotes
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Please all, and you will please none.
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Little friends may prove great friends.
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Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
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Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
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Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
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Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
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The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.
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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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To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.
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Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
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No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.
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