Aesop
Aesop
Aesopwas an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics...
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guests welcome uninvited-guests
Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave
adversity tests sincerity
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends
opportunity waiting want
If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity
way safe method
Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
safety obscurity
Obscurity often brings safety.
no-friends popularity many-friends
He that has many friends, has no friends.
delay active
The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.
sticks flesh bones
What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.
prejudice acquaintance
Acquaintance softens prejudice.
suffering
We learn from the things we suffer.
summer winter bed
If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
lying grieving gold
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
thinking giving gold
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.
anger opportunity quarrels
The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.