ThursdayFeb 05, 2026
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Distrust interested advice.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Appearances often are deceiving.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Self conceit may lead to self destruction.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep's clothing.
It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
We often give enemies the means of our own destruction.
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to findnothing.
Aesop, that master storyteller of old, told this fable: A jar of honey was upset in a housekeeper's room, and a number of flies were attracted by its sweetness. Placing their feet in it, the flies ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and they were suffocated. Just as they were dying, they exclaimed: 'Oh, foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.'
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Our insignificance is the cause of our safety.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse came forth.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Little friends may prove great friends.
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Much outcry, little outcome.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Please all, and you will please none.
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Slow and steady wins the race.
The gods help them that help themselves.
I am sure the grapes are sour.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
United we stand. divided we fall.
In union there is strength. 'Union gives strength' is the version in The Fables of Aesop, ed. Joseph Jacobs, p. 87 (1964).
Union gives strength.
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
The boy cried 'Wolf, wolf!' and the villagers came out to help him.
Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
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