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Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Aesop
Giving, Advice, Crisis
Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.64, GENERAL PRESS

Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today.

Aesop
Procrastination, Today, Tomorrow

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

Aesop
Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

Aesop
Safe, Way, Hundred
Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.39, Lulu Press, Inc

Equals make the best friends.

Aesop
Friendship, Fables
Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.117, GENERAL PRESS

United we stand, divided we fall.

Aesop
Family, Fall, Diversity
Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

Aesop
Fate, Masters
Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.110

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Aesop
Succeed, Failing, Persuasion

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

Aesop
Effort, May, Share
Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Aesop
Old Friends, Sake, Neglect

Every tale is not to be believed.

Aesop
Tales
Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections”, p.84, 谷月社

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

Aesop
Wine, Vintage, Spirituality

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

Aesop
Wise, Circumstances, Turns
Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections”, p.12, 谷月社

The strong and the weak cannot keep company.

Aesop
Strong, Weak, Company
Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Aesop
Summer, Winter, Bed
Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.10, Lulu.com

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Aesop
Evil, Hateful, Virtue
Edward J. Detmold, Aesop (2014). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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.

Aesop
Enemy, Toil, Easier
Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

Aesop
Life, Ego, Trying

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Aesop
Men, Bitterness, Consciousness
Edward J. Detmold, Aesop (2014). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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."

Aesop
Beautiful, House, Brain
Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Aesop
Gratitude, Eggs, Golden

It is useless attacking the insensible.

Aesop
Reality, Useless, Attacking
Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

Appearances are deceptive.

Aesop
Appearance, Deceptive
Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

There was once 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 came on his 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
Summer, Blow, Men
"Æsop's fables; with drawings by Fritz Kredel".

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

Aesop
Friendship, Enemy, Fawns
Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.74, Aesop

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