(Fabulist and Storyteller) 620 BCE - 564 BCE, (Delphi, Greece)
Aesop
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The covetous are poor givers.
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Much wants more and loses all.
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Who acts in haste repent at leisure.
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Slow but steady wins the race.
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Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
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Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.
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The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.
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Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
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I can’t be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.
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Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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No arguments will give courage to the coward.
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Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Put your shoulder to the wheel.
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Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
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Prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
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The more you want, the more you stand to lose.
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
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Facts speak plainer than words.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
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Please all, and you will please none.
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Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.
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If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
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Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
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There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
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Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.
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Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
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The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
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A man is known by the company he keeps.
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In critical moments, even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
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Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.
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Most arguments are useless.
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Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave.
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It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
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A word in season is most precious.
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Zeal should not outrun discretion.
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
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Once a wolf, always a wolf.
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Those who suffer most cry out the least.
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
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Little by little does the trick.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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Self-help is the best help.