"It is foolish to try to imitate the…" — Aesop
"It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others."
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170 Quotes by Aesop
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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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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In…
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like…
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here…
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that…
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road…
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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