Aesop's Fables

Arranged by Moral of the Story

1. A man is known by the company he keeps.
2. Appearances are deceptive.
3. Before you try to exploit someone, find out who his friends are.
4. Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
5. Better starve free than be a fat slave.
6. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
7. Cunning often outwits itself.
8. Distrust interested advice.
9. Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.
10. Don't destroy an old friendship in the hope of gaining a new one.
11. Greed often over reaches itself.
12. He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.
13. If words suffice not, blows must follow.
14. If you let people use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
15. In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
16. It is easy to kick a man that is down.
17. It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.
18. Little friends may prove great friends. (Dove and the Ant)
19. Little friends may prove great friends. (Lion and the Mouse)
20. Look Before You Leap.
21. Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
22. Pleasure bought with pain hurts.
23. Prepare today for what may be needed tomorrow.
24. Pride goes before destruction.
25. Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
26. Slow but steady wins the race.
27. Some men are more important in their own eyes than in the eyes of their neighbors.
28. The fool who persists in his error will be destroyed.
29. There is always another side of the story.
30. There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
31. There is such a thing as telling too much of the truth.
32. To the selfish all are selfish.
33. United we stand, divided we fall.
34. We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
35. What is most truly valuable is often underrated.