Aesop Quotes - Page 7

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• Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

  Aesop

  Giving, Advice, Crisis

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.64, GENERAL PRESS

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• Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

  Aesop

  Wine, Vintage, Spirituality

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• It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Preparation, Today

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

  Aesop

  Guests, Welcome, Uninvited Guests

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.37, Penguin

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• I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Blow, Men

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

  Aesop

  Men, Trying, Sides

  "Aesops Fables: A Collection of Aesop's Fables".

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• Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

  Aesop

  Contentment, Elements

  Aesop (2011). “Aesop's Fables 01-30 (伊索寓言（第一篇至第三十篇）)”, p.704, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

  Aesop

  Long, Toil, Ease

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• Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

  Aesop

  Delay, Blame, Sometimes

  Aesop (2000). “Aesop's fables”

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• Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

  Aesop

  Animal, Lions, May

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• Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

  Aesop

  People, Misfortunes

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• If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

  Aesop

  Brain, Half, Beard

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• The strong and the weak cannot keep company.

  Aesop

  Strong, Weak, Company

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• Example is more powerful than precept.

  Aesop

  Powerful, Example

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.55, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Equals make the best friends.

  Aesop

  Friendship, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.117, GENERAL PRESS

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• The value is in the worth, not in the number.

  Aesop

  Numbers, Values

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• If words suffice not, blows must follow.

  Aesop

  Blow, Ifs

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Every man for himself.

  Aesop

  Men, Differences, Every Man For Himself

  Munro Leaf, Aesop (1979). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version”

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• The great do not always prevail.

  Aesop

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Familiarity breeds contempt.

  Aesop

  Relationship, Wisdom, Disrespect

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• I am sure the grapes are sour.

  Aesop

  Grapes, Sour

  "The Fox and the Grapes". A fable by Aesop,

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• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

  Aesop

  Reality, Focus And Concentration, Shadow

  "Aesop's Fables".

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• Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

  Aesop

  Blow, Wind, Looks

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.4, GENERAL PRESS

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• The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

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  Mean, Eagles, Arrows

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• It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

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  Enemy, Easier, Oneself

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