Aesop

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

— Aesop

Appearances are often deceiving.

— Aesop

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

— Aesop

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

— Aesop

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

— Aesop

I am sure the grapes are sour.

— Aesop

The gods help them that help themselves.

— Aesop

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

— Aesop

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

— Aesop

It is easy to kick a person when he is down.

— Aesop

“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”

— Aesop

“No arguments will give courage to the coward. The”

— Aesop

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

— Aesop

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

— Aesop

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

— Aesop

“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”

— Aesop

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

— Aesop

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

— Aesop

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

— Aesop

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

— Aesop

“The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what…

— Aesop

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

— Aesop

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils…

— Aesop

It is useless attacking the insensible.

— Aesop

Liars often set their own traps.

— Aesop

In union there is strength.

— Aesop

Familiarity breeds contempt.

— Aesop

Don't make much ado about nothing.

— Aesop

Distrust interested advice.

— Aesop

The memory of a good deed lives.

— Aesop

The more honor, the more danger.

— Aesop

Obscurity often brings safety.

— Aesop

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

— Aesop

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

— Aesop

“In trying to please all, he had pleased none.”

— Aesop

“It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.”

— Aesop

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

— Aesop

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

— Aesop

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

— Aesop

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

— Aesop