Kindness affects more than severity.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
An Ass put on a Lion's skin and wentAbout the foreset with much merriment,Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks,Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the m...
Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.
Little by little does the trick.
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 gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up b...
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.