Aesop Quotes

“The best you do does not counterbalance the worst.”

“I remember alike those who sought my life with stones and those who gave me food- lay aside therefore your fears. I return as an enemy only to those who injured me.”

″...study yourself and try to find out if there are qualities in you which are as good as those discovered in others.”

“My death would be regretted, yours would not.”

“Pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water and within a hair’s breadth of starving or drowning.”

″...I’m not fool enough to give up certainty for an uncertainty.”

“We’ll have to hit the road, for when a man undertakes to do his own business, it is not likely that he will be disappointed.”

″...instead of being stubborn and stiff, and confiding in my strength, I yield and bend, letting the blast go over me, knowing that it would be fruitless to resist.”

″...when I paid you honor, I reaped no benefits, but now that I ill-treat you I am loaded with an abundance of riches.”

“Your outside is all that’s worth while, while I, for all my plain and humble garb, can sing with such sweet melody...”