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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Aesop

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Please all, and you will please none.

Appearances are often deceiving.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop

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