Aesop's Fables
Aesop
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
“If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.”
“The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.”
“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
“In trying to please all, he had pleased none.”
“Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.”
“Those who suffer most cry out the least.”
“Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.”
“THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG There was once a Dog who used to snap at people and bite them without any provocation, and who was a great nuisance to every one who came to his master's house. So his master fastened a bell round his neck to warn people of his presence. The Dog was very proud of the bell, and strutted about tinkling it with immense satisfaction. But an old dog came up to him and said, "The fewer airs you give yourself the better, my friend. You don't think, do you, that your bell was given you as a reward of merit? On the contrary, it is a badge of disgrace." Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.”
“once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.”
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Book Keywords:
disguise, falsehood, friendship, bad-friends, double-talk, prudence, wisdom, enemies, pleasing-others, forethought, diplomacy, friends, reliability
