415 Quotes by Aesop

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.

Try before you trust.

Vices are their own punishment.

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.

No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.

Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: “Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others’ rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.

Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.