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Aesop

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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.


— Aesop


#excuse #serve #tyrant #will

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.


— Aesop


#content #everything #first #lot #your

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.


— Aesop


#grasping #lose #shadow #substance #you

Example is the best precept.


— Aesop


#example #precept

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.


— Aesop


#brave #distance #easy #safe

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.


— Aesop


#thrifty #today #tomorrow #wants

Slow but steady wins the race.


— Aesop


#slow #steady #wins

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.


— Aesop


#same #scales #seldom #suffer #those

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.


— Aesop


#derive #misfortunes #others #unhappy

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


— Aesop


#grasping #lest #lose #shadow #substance






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Did you know about Aesop?

An ancient literary work called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic probably highly fictional version of his life including the traditional description of him as a strikingly ugly slave (δοῦλος) who by his cleverness acquires freedom and becomes an adviser to kings and city-states. A number of later writers from the Roman imperial period (including Phaedrus who adapted the fables into Latin) say that he was born in Phrygia. Life

The earliest Greek sources including Aristotle indicate that Aesop was born around 620 BC in Thrace at a site on the Black Sea coast which would later become the city Mesembria.

Scattered details of Aesop's life can be found in ancient sources including Aristotle Herodotus and Plutarch. Aesop (pronounced /ˈiːsɒp/ EE-sop Greek: Αἴσωπος Aisōpos c.

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