Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
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.
Little by little does the trick.
Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
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...
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...
...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.