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

  Aesop

  Wine, Vintage, Spirituality

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• All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.

  Aesop

  Needs, Littles

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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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• Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

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  Strong, Giving, Weak

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.48

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

  Aesop

  Delay, Blame, Sometimes

  Aesop (2000). “Aesop's fables”

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

  Aesop

  People, Misfortunes

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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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• 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 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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• The great do not always prevail.

  Aesop

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

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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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• Familiarity breeds contempt.

  Aesop

  Relationship, Wisdom, Disrespect

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

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• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Literature, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

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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.

  Aesop

  Enemy, Easier, Oneself

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• If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

  Aesop

  Hair, Water, Wish

  Aesop (1850). “Fables of AEsop and others”, p.300, Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [and 18 others] ...

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• If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

  Aesop

  Wise, Air, Innocent

  Aesop (2011). “Aesop's Fables”, p.18, Collector's Library

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