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Aesop
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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What a splendid head, yet no brain.
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
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Example is the best precept. ("The Two Crabs" Fables)
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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
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Plodding wins the race.
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.
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Enemies promises were made to be broken.
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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
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