Aesop

Aesop

"Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten."
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"Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten."
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"The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales."
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"Kindness affects more than severity."
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"Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything."
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"Though this may be play to you Tis death to us."
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"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."
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"An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots."
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"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
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"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
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"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."
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
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"It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard."
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"An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment,Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks,Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain,Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away,But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way."
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"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."
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"No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth"
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"...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain."
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
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