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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.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

Aesop
Wise, Air, Innocent
Aesop (2011). “Aesop's Fables”, p.18, Collector's Library

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

Aesop
Wish
Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.36, Lulu Press, Inc

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

Aesop
Please
Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.25, Lulu.com

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop
Adversity, Men, Littles
Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

Self-help is the best help

Aesop
Life, Self, Fables
Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Aesop
Life, Hero, Brave
Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.44, Lulu.com

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

Aesop
Anger, Opportunity, Rage
Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.122, GENERAL PRESS

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

Aesop
Thinking, Giving, Gold
Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.58, Lulu Press, Inc

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.

Aesop
Sweet, Sea, Rivers

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Aesop
Common, Fortune, Ups & Downs
Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.27, Lulu.com

Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

Aesop
Guests, Welcome, Uninvited Guests
Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.106

Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

Aesop
Lying, Grieving, Gold
Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.30, Aesop

Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

Aesop
Guests, Welcome, Uninvited Guests
Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.37, Penguin

All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.

Aesop
Needs, Littles

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

Aesop
Enemy, Society, Soar
Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.48, Pelekanos Books

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Aesop
Wise, Wisdom, Skills
Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

Aesop
Brain, Half, Beard
Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.39, Courier Corporation

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

Aesop
Dust, Tree, Wheels
"The Fly on the Wheel". Fable by Aesop,

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Aesop
Men, Trying, Sides
"Aesops Fables: A Collection of Aesop's Fables".

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Aesop
Wisdom, Preparation, Today
Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Aesop
Wisdom, Literature, Fables
Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Aesop
Inspirational, Vanity, Office
Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.109

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Aesop
Relationship, Wisdom, Disrespect
Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.19, Courier Corporation

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Aesop
Hypnosis, Literature, Persuasion
"The Wind and the Sun". A fable by Aesop,

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Aesop
Dying, Coward, Majesty
Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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