"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
- Aesop (550 BC - )

"Appearances often are deceiving."
- Aesop (550 BC - )

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
- Aesop (550 BC - )

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
- Aesop (550 BC - )

"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs."
- Aesop (550 BC - )

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop (550 BC - )

"The gods help them that help themselves."
- Aesop (550 BC - )

"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
- Aesop (550 BC - )