Quotes from Aesop
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
- Aesop
He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.
- Aesop
If you were foolish enough to sing all summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
- Aesop
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
- Aesop
Be satisfied with what you have.
- Aesop
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.
- Aesop
A word in season is most precious.
- Aesop
The great do not always prevail.
- Aesop
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
- Aesop
Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.
- Aesop
The greatest benefits will not bind the ungrateful.
- Aesop
Pride goes before destruction.
- Aesop