Aesop
Aesop
Aesopwas an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics...
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The great do not always prevail.
harm
Harm seek, harm find.
Don't make much ado about nothing.
wind way shows
Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.
humility nsa good-things
Good things come in small packages.
cutting helping contracts
God helps those who have no-cut contracts.
enemy easier oneself
It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.
giving contempt familiarity
Familiarity gives rise to contempt.
people misfortunes
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
example teach be-good
Being a good example teaches others to be good.
wish
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
kindness
A kindness is never wasted
terror dies
Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.
advice unsolicited-advice distrust
Distrust unsolicited advice.