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Quotes by Aesop

Aesop

“Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”

Aesop

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”

Aesop

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

Aesop

“Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.”

Aesop

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

Aesop

“Better to starve free than be a fat slave”

Aesop

“Much outcry, little outcome”

Aesop

“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow”

Aesop

“Wealth unused might as well not exist.”

Aesop

“Obscurity often brings safety.”

Aesop

“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”

Aesop

“In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.”

Aesop

“Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many”

Aesop

“Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.”

Aesop

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop

Betray a friend, and youll often find you have ruined yourself.

Aesop

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Aesop

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Aesop