Aesop

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch."

"The greatest and most useful virtue is the art of agreeing to differ."

"Every creature has its own usefulness."

"Those who desire much more than they need are tormented with abundance."

"A small wound does not need a long bandage."

"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes."

"Better to suffer than to cause suffering."

"There is always someone worse off than yourself."

"Walls have ears."

"It is easy to despise what you cannot get."

"Do not despise the day of small beginnings."

"The remedy often proves worse than the disease."

"A false friend and a true enemy are better than a false enemy and a true friend."

"The richest person is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least."

"Better an honest enemy than a false friend."

"I will go and return to my own people, and my people shall be your people."

"The envious person is never happy but with another's pain."

"A man's own folly sends him to ruin, not the strength of his enemy."

"Soft words and kind expressions will turn away wrath."

"Who can doubt that he who made the hare swift, made the tortoise slow?"

"Look before you leap."

"A quarrelsome man has no good neighbors."

"The greatest deception of mankind is the belief in their own importance."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"One cannot be friends with someone who is not content."

"The greater the truth, the greater the libel."

"A well-built ship is a glorious sight to behold, but a wrecked ship is a sad reminder of human weakness."

"What a man dislikes in his superiors, let him not display toward his inferiors."

"The gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time."

"The world is full of people, but few are your friends."