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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memories deeds good-deeds
The memory of a good deed lives.
hair water wish
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
humor clumsy jokes
Clumsy jesting is no joke.
strife discord
He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.
disease fables remedy
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
opportunity waiting want
If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity
home evil wish
Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.
reality anticipation mere
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
fall school unity
Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.
enemy society soar
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
suffering
We learn from the things we suffer.
no-friends popularity many-friends
He that has many friends, has no friends.
way safe method
Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
life hero brave
The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.