Aesop Quotes - Page 8

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• Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

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  Please

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

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  Sweet, Sea, Rivers

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• Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.

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  Wind, Way, Shows

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• Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

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  Safe, Way, Hundred

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.39, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

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  Adversity, Men, Littles

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Self-help is the best help

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  Life, Self, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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

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  Animal, Lions, May

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• Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

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  Thinking, Giving, Gold

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.58, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is useless attacking the insensible.

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  Reality, Useless, Attacking

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

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• There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but — whack — his palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

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  Summer, Blow, Men

  "Æsop's fables; with drawings by Fritz Kredel".

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• Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

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  Guests, Welcome, Uninvited Guests

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.106

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• Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

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  Lying, Grieving, Gold

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.30, Aesop

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• Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

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  Common, Fortune, Ups & Downs

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

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  Anger, Opportunity, Rage

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.122, GENERAL PRESS

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• It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Skills

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

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• Appearances are deceiving.

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  Appearance, Deceiving, Miscellaneous

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• Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

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  Enemy, Society, Soar

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.48, Pelekanos Books

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• Only cowards insult dying majesty.

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  Dying, Coward, Majesty

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

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• The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

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  Dust, Tree, Wheels

  "The Fly on the Wheel". Fable by Aesop,

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• Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

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  Home, Evil, Wish

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.57, Aesop

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• Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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  Inspirational, Vanity, Office

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.109

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• Kindness effects more than severity.

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  Kindness, Parenting, Effects

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

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  Old Friends, Sake, Neglect

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• You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

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  Effort, May, Share

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every tale is not to be believed.

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  Tales

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections”, p.84, 谷月社

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