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- A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
- It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Jay and the Peacock
- Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Frog and the Ox
- People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Dog in the Manger
- It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Ant and the Grasshopper
- Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), Juno and the Peacock
- Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Wolf and the Lamb
- Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Dog and the Shadow
- I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Man and the Satyr
- Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Goose with the Golden Eggs
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