Aesop

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Aesop

If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair’s breadth of starving or drowning.

Aesop

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

Aesop

Kindness effects more than severity.

Aesop

One story is good, till another is told.

Aesop

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Aesop

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

Aesop

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

Aesop

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

Aesop

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop