"It is easy to despise what you cannot…" — Aesop
"It is easy to despise what you cannot get"
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170 Quotes by Aesop
Aesop has 170 quotes on this site.
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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
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Please all, and you will please none.
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -…
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we…
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More Cannot Get Quotes
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one of 196 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you…
— Rupert Brooke
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on…
— Louisa May Alcott
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If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.
— Joel Osteen
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You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last…
— Theodore Austin-Sparks
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Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you…
— Sun Tzu
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or…
— John Stuart Mill
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I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it…
— Beryl Markham
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the…
— Alan Watts
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You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such…
— Rajneesh
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The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship…
— Granville Hicks
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You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
— Max Hastings
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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure…
— Albertus Magnus
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