The gods help them that help themselves.

Adventure is worthwhile.

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

It is easier to get into the enemy’s toils than out again.

Little by little does the trick.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged...

Slow but steady wins the race

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto...

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters

Kindness effects more than severity.

United we stand, divided we fall.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another

In union there is strength.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop’s pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, ‘What a dust do I raise,’...

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.” And after the Hare said this, he ran for his...

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Don’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.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Obscurity brings safety.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

There can be little liking where there is no likeness

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves

Please all, and you will please none.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either

Vices are their own punishment

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Little by little does the trick

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

As a babysitter my mother trusted you with her children and your broke that trust by touching her daughter