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