The covetous are poor givers.
Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.
We tend to underestimate the small things about ourselves that are often our most valuable attributes.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.
The North Wind and the Sun.
This fable shows that ornaments of the spirit are preferable to a beautiful body.
I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child.
Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.
Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.
The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
Da bi vidjeli smrt neprijatelja, neki su spremni vidjeti i vlastitu.
Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.
Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.
Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
When the Shepherd came down and saw what was done, he said, “O you most ungrateful creatures! You provide wool to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him who feeds you.
By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.
Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.
Danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected.
No plea will protect the innocent from the unjust judge.