Quotes from Aesop

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Most arguments are useless.

Persuasion is better than force.

In union there is strength.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Self-help is the best help

A word in season is most precious.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Please all, and you will please none.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.