Quotes from Aesop

I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.

Try before you trust.

Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.

No arguments will give courage to the coward.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Fair weather friends are not worth much.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

Who acts in haste repents at leisure.

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

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.

My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.

Mucha gente hay que hace un bien sólo si de él recoge beneficio, no por amor y respeto a lo que es justo.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Don't take it so much to heart, my friend; put a brick into the hole, and take a look at it every day: you won't be any worse off than before, for even when you had your gold it was of no earthly use to you.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbors.

Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.