Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Aesop

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Aesop

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Aesop

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

Aesop

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Aesop

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Aesop

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Aesop

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Aesop

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Aesop