It is not only fine feathers that make f... by Aesop | We Heart Quotes

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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

- Aesop

Other quotes by Aesop

End Will

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

- Aesop

Wishes

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

- Aesop

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

- Aesop

Peace

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

- Aesop

Example

Example is the best precept.

- Aesop

Today

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

- Aesop

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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

- Socrates

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

- Ayn Rand