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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guests welcome uninvited-guests
Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave
life place-in-life
Keep your place in life and your place will keep you
giving coward matter
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward
gratitude pay
It pays to be content with your lot.
gratitude may ends
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.
believe fables companion
If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
family teamwork father
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".
broken promise enemy
Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
effort may share
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
educational may appearance
Appearances may be deceiving.
adversity tests sincerity
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends
self-esteem helping esteem
The gods help them who help themselves.
needs littles
All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.
summer men blow
There once was 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 come on his own 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.