Aesop Quotes - Page 2

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• It pays to be prepared.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Pay

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

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  Farewell, Confusion, Childhood

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.19, First Avenue Editions

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• Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

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  Adversity, Tests, Sincerity

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Penguin

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• Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness

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  Kindness, Fun, Kids

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.63, First Avenue Editions

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• Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

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  Life, May, Forgotten

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.7, Pelekanos Books

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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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  Honesty, People, Fool

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• The more you want, the more you stand to lose

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  Want, Loses

  Aesop (2007). “Aesop's Fables”, p.104, Penguin UK

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• One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

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  Complaining, Stealing, Ifs

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• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

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  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Pelekanos Books

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• An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

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  Strength, Strong, Wind

  Aesop, Lloyd W. Daly (1961). “Aesop without morals: the famous fables, and a life of Aesop, newly translated and edited by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated by Grace Muscarella”

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• Distrust unsolicited advice.

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  Advice, Unsolicited Advice, Distrust

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• Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

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  Life, Place In Life

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• Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

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  Hurt, Fables, Cry

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Penguin

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• He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

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  Hurt, Revenge, Plot

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

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  Trusted

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.86

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• Facts speak plainer than words

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  Facts, Speak

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Liars often set their own traps.

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  Liars, Traps

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• Persuasion is better than force.

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  Life, Persuasion, Force

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.22, GENERAL PRESS

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• Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

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  Silly, Clothes, May

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Little by little does the trick.

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  Wisdom, Relaxation, Doe

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.56, Pelekanos Books

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• The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

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  Life, Suffering, Injury

  Aesop (1809). “Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists: In Three Books”, p.240

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• A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

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  Family, Teamwork, Father

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• A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

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  Humanity, Comfort

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• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Two Sides

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28

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• Please all, and you will please none.

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  Business, Literature, Fables

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.63, Pelekanos Books

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