It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
AesopThinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
AesopOutside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
AesopThe injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
AesopHe that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
AesopMots clés principles
An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went
About the foreset with much merriment,
Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks,
Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane
That Raucous voice so petulant and vain,
Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away,
But that I know your old familiar bray'.
That's just the way with asses, just the way.
The north wind and the sun were disputing which was the stronger, and agreed to acknowledge as the victor whichever of them could strip a traveler of his clothing. The wind tried first. But its violent gusts only made the man hold his clothes tightly around him, and when it blew harder still the cold made him so uncomfortable that he put on an extra wrap. Eventually the wind got tired of it and handed him over to the sun. The sun shone first with moderate warmth, which made the man take off his topcoat. Then it blazed fiercely, till, unable to stand the heat, he stripped and went off to a bathe in a nearby river. Persuasion is more effective than force.
AesopDon't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
AesopMots clés individuality morals values self-expression independent-thought
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
AesopMots clés humor
Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.
AesopMots clés everything content first lot aesop
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