Aesop Quotes
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
- Nationality: Greek
- Occupation: Author
- Born: None
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Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenaeus
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Athenaeus
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Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
Aulus Gellius
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Truth is the daughter of time.
Aulus Gellius
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I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
Aulus Gellius
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I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
Astrid Lindgren
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I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
Astrid Lindgren
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I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
Astrid Lindgren
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Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
Arthur Machen
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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
Arthur Machen