"Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents."
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Aesop quotes (page 9 of 13)
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"Obscurity often brings safety."
"Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today."
"We should use our judgment before coming to a decision."
"Obscurity brings safety."
"False friends leave you in times of trouble."
"Kindness effects more than severity."
"Wealth unused might as well not exist."
"One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed."
"Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities."
"Acquaintance softens prejudice."
"It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it"
"If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning."
"Every man should be content to mind his own business."
"Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty."
"If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped."
"Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you."
"Equals make the best friends."
"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs."
"Every one is more or less master of his own fate."