You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil..

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it.

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

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen ….

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction..

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize..

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gust….

Kindness is more persuasive than force..

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy..

He that has many friends, has no friends..

Equals make the best friends..

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched..

We often despise what is most useful to us..

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

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all..

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody..

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

The memory of a good deed lives..

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed hi….

Appearances are deceiving..

The gods help them who help themselves..