Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
—Aesop
Topics: Evil
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
—Aesop
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
—Aesop
Topics: Success is not everything, Wishes, One liners
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
—Aesop
Topics: Wealth
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
—Aesop
Topics: Misfortune
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
—Aesop
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
—Aesop
Topics: Advice, Trust, Difficulty
Little friends may prove great friends.
—Aesop
Topics: Friendship
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
—Aesop
Topics: Originality, Innovation, One liners
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
—Aesop
Topics: Foresight, Cooperation, Help
The injuries we do, and those we suffer, are seldom weighed in the same scales.
—Aesop
Fine feathers make fine birds.
—Aesop
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
—Aesop
Topics: Kindness
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
—Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
—Aesop
Topics: Government
Little by little does the trick.
—Aesop
Topics: Little Things, One Step at a Time, Things
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
—Aesop
Topics: Illusion, Danger
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
—Aesop
Topics: Excuses
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
—Aesop
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
—Aesop
Topics: Bravery, Courage, Brave
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
—Aesop
Topics: Pride, Modesty
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
—Aesop
Topics: Respect, Power, Respectability
Kindness effects more than severity.
—Aesop
Topics: Kindness, Service, Compassion
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.
—Aesop
Topics: War
Plodding wins the race.
—Aesop
Topics: Perseverance, Endurance, Resolve
There once was a bald man who sat down after work on a hot summer’s day. A fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but – whack – his palm come on his own head instead; again the fly tormented him, but this time the man was wiser and said: “you will only injure yourself if you take notice of dispicable enemies.”
—Aesop
Topics: Enemies, Enemy
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
—Aesop
Topics: Appearance, Character
Obscurity brings safety.
—Aesop
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
—Aesop
Topics: Unhappiness, One liners, Fortune, Misfortunes
No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
—Aesop
Topics: Work, Kindness
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