Aesop Quotes, Men Quotes, Two Quotes

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

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Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

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Vices are their own punishment

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He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

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Every tale is not to be believed.

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Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

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Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

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Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

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Pride goes before destruction.

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Be satisfied with what you have.

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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

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The great do not always prevail.

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He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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Harm seek, harm find.

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Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

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Facts speak plainer than words

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A kindness is never wasted

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