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- The gods help them that help themselves.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), Hercules and the Wagoner
- We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Old Man and Death
- Union gives strength.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Bundle of Sticks
- While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts
- The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Eagle and the Arrow
- All is flux, nothing stays still.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
- Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
- Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
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