Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

- Aesop

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

- Aesop

Persuasion is better than force.

- Aesop

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

- Aesop

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

- Aesop

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

- Aesop

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

- Aesop

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

- Aesop

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

- Aesop