Aesop Quotes

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

What’s bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Not all creatures can become as great as they think.

"OLD WOMAN having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing. This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little. And when he had got all she had, he healed her and demanded the promised payment. The Old Woman, when she recovered her sight and saw none of her goods in her house, would give him nothing. The Physician insisted on his claim, and, as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge. The Old Woman, standing up in the Court, argued: "This man here speaks the truth in what he says; for I did promise to give him a sum of money if I should recover my sight: but if I continued blind, I was to

It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

Like will draw like.

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

Al nuevo árbol se le endereza tierno para que crezca derecho.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.