Quotes from Aesop

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Kindness effects more than severity.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Good things come in small packages.

The memory of a good deed lives.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

The gods help them who help themselves.

A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

A kindness is never wasted

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.