Aesop Quotes - Aesop's Quotes are still taught as moral lessons
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Short Aesop quotes from moral fables about gratitude - Part 1
Aesop (or Æsop, from the Greek Aisopos) (c. 620 BC – c. 560 BC) was an ancient Greek fabulist of possibly African descent (his Greek name means Ethiopian or black man in today's parlance), by tradition a slave who credited the African goddess Isis for his gift. Aesop's Fables are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoons.
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Aesop Quotes
1. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop
2. It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
– Aesop
3. “Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
4. Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
– Aesop
5. “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.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
6. “Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
― Aesop
7. “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.”
― Aesop
8. “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
― Aesop
9. “Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
10. “After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
― Aesop
11. “A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.”
― Aesop
12. “It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.”
― Aesop
13. “Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most”
― Aesop
14. “Please all, and you will please none.”
― Aesop
15. “If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
16. “The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.”
― Aesop
17. “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
18. “United we stand; divided we fall.”
― Aesop
19. “No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
― Aesop
20. “The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
21. “Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
― Aesop
22. “Adversity tests the sincerity of friends”
― Aesop
23. “It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
― Aesop
24. “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
― Aesop
25. “He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ”
― Aesop
26. “Little by little does the trick.”
― Aesop
27. Distrust interested advice.
– Aesop
28. “Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”
― Aesop
29. “We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”
― Aesop
30. “Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”
― Aesop
31. “Wise men say nothing in dangerous times”
― Aesop
32. “Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both”
― Aesop
33. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
– Aesop
34. “Vices are their own punishment”
― Aesop
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