Aesop Quotes

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• He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end. End
• It pays to be content with your lot. Content
• If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold… Breadth
• Obscurity brings safety. Brings
• Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. Content
• It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it. Confusion
• If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity Investors
• He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued. Audience
• What a splendid head, yet no brain. Brain
• Only cowards insult dying majesty. Coward
• Example is the best precept. Best
• It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others. Foolish
• It is possible to have too much of a good thing. Good
• It pays to be prepared. Pay
• Kindness is more persuasive than force. Force
• Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. All
• Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis. Advice
• In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. Critical
• A man is known by the company he keeps Company
• If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade. Detect

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