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If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.
Servants don't know a good master till they have served a worse.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Like will draw like.
He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
Don't go looking for trouble.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
False friends leave you in times of trouble.
We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbors.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.
Each person has his strong point.
What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.
In a crisis, give help first and then advice.
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
A Man and his Wife had the good fortune to possess a Goose which laid a Golden Egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the whole store of precious metal at once. But when they cut it open they found it was just like any other goose. Thus, they neither got rich all at once, as they had hoped, nor enjoyed any longer the daily addition to their wealth.
Example is more powerful than precept.
The memory of a good deed lives.
it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings
Little by little does the trick.
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
Every tale is not to be believed.
It is useless attacking the insensible.
Appearances often are deceiving.
Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.
If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.
The value is in the worth, not in the number.
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".
The Astronomer
AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?
Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
Do not attempt too much at once.
We learn from the things we suffer.
God helps those who have no-cut contracts.
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
Vices are their own punishment
It pays to be content with your lot.
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
Pride goes before destruction.
Kindness is more persuasive than force.
The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, "You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?" She smiled, and said: "I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can." No arguments will give courage to the coward.
If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
Persuasion is better than force.
Great determination can overcome most odds.
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
The Frogs and the Well
Some frogs lived happily in a puddle. Then summer arrived; as one hot day succeeded another, the puddle shrank until it disappeared altogether. The frogs had no choice but to seek a new home. They hopped painfully along, but everywhere they went they found dried-up ponds and empty river beds. Finally they came to a well. Looking down the deep shaft, they saw water at the bottom.
"We're saved!" croaked one frog. "Let's jump in now!"
"Wait a moment," said his less impulsive friend. "What will we do if this one also dries up?
Much wants more and loses all.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.
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.
Those who suffer most cry out the least.
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.
Once a wolf, always a wolf.
The appointed day came, the birds assembled before Jupiter's throne; and, after passing them in review, he was about to make the Jackdaw king, when all the rest set upon the king-elect, stripped him of his borrowed plumes, and exposed him for the Jackdaw that he was.
It is absurd to ape our betters.
They had then got to a bridge over the river, where
There can be little liking where there is no likeness.
Good things come in small packages.
Facts speak plainer than words
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Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Kindness effects more than severity.
Every man for himself.
It is possible to have too much of a good thing.
Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
One story is good, till another is told.
Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.
Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.
An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went
About the foreset with much merriment,
Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks,
Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane
That Raucous voice so petulant and vain,
Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away,
But that I know your old familiar bray'.
That's just the way with asses, just the way.
It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.
Self-help is the best help
Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.
I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Better poverty without care, than riches with.
One story sounds good until another is told
The more you want, the more you stand to lose
The gods help them who help themselves.
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."
Once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.
