415 Quotes by Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

He that has many friends, has no friends.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Being a good example teaches others to be good.

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.