Aesop Quotes - Page 8

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

  Aesop

  Adversity, Men, Littles

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

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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.

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  Reality, Focus And Concentration, Shadow

  "Aesop's Fables".

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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.

  Aesop

  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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• Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

  Aesop

  Please

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

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• United we stand, divided we fall.

  Aesop

  Family, Fall, Diversity

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

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• We often despise what is most useful to us.

  Aesop

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.26, Pelekanos Books

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

  Aesop

  Safe, Way, Hundred

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

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• Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.

  Aesop

  Wind, Way, Shows

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• Self-help is the best help

  Aesop

  Life, Self, Fables

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

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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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• 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.

  Aesop

  Summer, Blow, Men

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

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• Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

  Aesop

  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.

  Aesop

  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.

  Aesop

  Common, Fortune, Ups & Downs

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

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

  Aesop

  Wise, Wisdom, Skills

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

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• The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

  Aesop

  Anger, Opportunity, Rage

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

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• Appearances are deceiving.

  Aesop

  Appearance, Deceiving, Miscellaneous

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• Only cowards insult dying majesty.

  Aesop

  Dying, Coward, Majesty

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

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

  Aesop

  Dust, Tree, Wheels

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

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

  Aesop

  Home, Evil, Wish

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

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

  Aesop

  Old Friends, Sake, Neglect

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