Plodding wins the race.

— Aesop

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

— Aesop

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

— Aesop

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

— Aesop

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and begets other suns?

— Aesop

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

— Aesop

Though this may be played to you This death to us.

— Aesop

United we stand, divided we fall.

— Aesop

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

— Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

— Aesop