"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy……" — Aesop
"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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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 Enjoy Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes…
— Mark Twain
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Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to…
— Rajneesh
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Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness
— Confucius
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We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect…
— John Owen
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Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,…
— Samuel Johnson
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We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.
— Jerry Bridges
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People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life…
— Rajneesh
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I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic…
— Colin Thompson
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges…
— Alan Paton
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Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given…
— Daniel Defoe
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Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many…
— Marcus Aurelius
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