Facts about Aesop
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Aesop was a famous Author from Greece, who lived between 620 BC and 560 BC.
Our collection contains 44 quotes who is written / told by Aesop, under the main topic Food.
Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Cleobulus, Pythagoras, Buddha, Xenophanes
Famous quotes by Aesop (44)
"United we stand, divided we fall"
"Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing"
"It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray"
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"
"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales"
"The gods help them that help themselves"
"Example is the best precept"
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow"
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own"
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety"
"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow"
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency"
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything"
"Adventure is worthwhile"
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety"
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office"
"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others"
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties"
"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance"
"Please all, and you will please none"
"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls"
"Familiarity breeds contempt"
"Self-conceit may lead to self destruction"
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters"
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance"
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten"
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin"
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow"
"Appearances are often deceiving"
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction"
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over"
"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted"
"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs"
"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another"
"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own"
"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either"
"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched"
"After all is said and done, more is said than done"
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in"
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth"
"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"
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit"
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"
"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds"
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