Quotes from Aesop

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

No act of kindness is ever wasted.

The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.

The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

Precious things are for those that can prize them.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

No gratitude from the wicked.

THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX A Wild Boar was engaged in whetting his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a Fox came by and, seeing what he was at, said to him, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out to-day, and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger I shall need to use my tusks. There'll be no time to sharpen them then.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

One story is good, till another is told.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

He that has many friends, has no friends.

In union, there is strength.

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.

Like will draw like.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Hati-hati jangan sampai kehilangan milikmu yang berharga gara-gara ingin menangkap bayangan.