Aesop Quotes

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop

Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either side.
- Aesop

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
- Aesop

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Aesop

In union there is strength.
- Aesop

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
- Aesop

Vices are their own punishment.
- Aesop

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
- Aesop

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.
- Aesop

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
- Aesop

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
- Aesop

Better to starve than be a fat slave.
- Aesop

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop