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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

- Aesop

Other quotes by Aesop

Act

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop

Gods

The gods help them that help themselves.

- Aesop

Prudence

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

- Aesop

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

- Aesop

United

United we stand, divided we fall.

- Aesop

Will

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

- Aesop

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