415 Quotes by 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.

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

Little liberties are great offenses.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

The great do not always prevail.