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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Aesop?
→ We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
→ Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
→ Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
→ Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
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Pick the quote attributed to Aesop.
→ Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
→ If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
→ Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
→ The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
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Select the quotation attributed to Aesop.
→ Anger cannot be dishonest.
→ Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
→ The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
→ If two people ride the same horse, one must ride behind.
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One of these may be attributed to Aesop. Which one?
→ It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
→ Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
→ Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
→ There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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Which one of these belongs to Aesop?
→ Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
→ He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
→ Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
→ Please all, and you will please none.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Aesop?
→ Generosity wins favor for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
→ It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
→ Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
→ He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Aesop.
→ Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
→ The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
→ Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
→ The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Aesop. Which one?
→ Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
→ Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
→ No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
→ Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Aesop?
→ Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
→ Woe be to him that reads but one book.
→ I was never less alone than when by myself.
→ Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Aesop.
→ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
→ Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
→ You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
→ There is nothing permanent except change.
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Looks like Aesop is the author of one of these.
→ The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
→ People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
→ Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
→ A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Aesop.
→ United we stand, divided we fall.
→ Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
→ Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
→ It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
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Which one should be attributed to Aesop?
→ Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
→ No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
→ In the marriage union the independence of the husband and the wife should be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
→ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Aesop?
→ He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
→ Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
→ Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
→ It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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Select the quote belonging to Aesop.
→ Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
→ Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
→ Science is but an image of the truth.
→ One must live the way one thinks, otherwise one risks ending up thinking the way one has lived.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Aesop.
→ In union there is strength.
→ Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
→ Imagination is the eye of the soul.
→ There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Aesop.
→ Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
→ Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
→ Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
→ Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Aesop?
→ He who moves not forward, goes backward.
→ Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
→ Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
→ Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
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