Aesop’s Fables (Collins Classics)

Don’t make much ado about nothing.

Fair weather friends are not worth much.

No arguments will give courage to the coward.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

Slow but steady wins the race.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

A Boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: “If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!”

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”