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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aisopos" title="Aisopos – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Aisopos" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C3%89sope" title="Ésope – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ésope" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gor mw-list-item"><a href="https://gor.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aesop" title="Aesop – Gorontalo" lang="gor" hreflang="gor" data-title="Aesop" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Hulontalo" data-language-local-name="Gorontalo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Hulontalo</span></a></li><li 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We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. <ul><li><i>The Eagle and the Arrow</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing. <ul><li><i>The Goose with the Golden Eggs</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Union gives strength. <ul><li><i>The Bundle of Sticks</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. <ul><li><i>The Old Man and Death</i>.</li></ul></li> <li>While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. <ul><li><i>The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FFE7CC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Misattributed">Misattributed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aesop&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Misattributed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. <ul><li>The first known appearance of this "quote" attributed to Aesop, is in the 1965 edition of the book <i>10,000 Jokes, Toasts & Stories</i> by Lewis and Faye Copeland. No story of fable is known for which it could be the moral or lesson.</li> <li>There is a similar saying on theft by <a href="/wiki/Cato_the_Elder" title="Cato the Elder">Cato</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Aesop">Quotes about Aesop</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aesop&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Quotes about Aesop"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There are certain artists who belong to all the people, everywhere, all the time. 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