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Aesop

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Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.


— Aesop


#chickens #count #hatched #your

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


— Aesop


#men #own #purposes #theirs #use

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.


— Aesop


#feathers #fine #make #only

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


— Aesop


#fire #good #masters #our #passions

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.


— Aesop


#insignificance #often #our #safety

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.


— Aesop


#outside #poor #poor substitute #show #substitute

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.


— Aesop


#force #more #often #persuasion #than

Plodding wins the race.


— Aesop


#race #wins

Put your shoulder to the wheel.


— Aesop


#shoulder #wheel #your

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.


— Aesop


#lead #may #self






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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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