By Aesop

#1: Good fortune never reaches us quickly, while bad fortune strikes easily

#4: There is no being so feeble that he is not capable of one day avenging a wrong doing—treat everyone with equal respect

#8: Men are foolish who in hope of greater things let those which they have in their grasp escape—one in the hand, two in the bush. The insatiable search for more.

#16: Whoever schemes against others owes his misfortune to himself.

#17: One ought not to welcome over-friendly advances in preference to old friendship, for one day you will be the old friend

#20: The lord resisteth the proud and giveth grace unto the humble

#22: What skill denies us, chance often gives us freely

#23: There is never such good weather that a storm might not follow