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“A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.”
Aesop
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
“The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales”
“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.”
“Appearances often are deceiving.”
“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
“Appearances are often deceiving.”
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties”
“Only cowards insult dying majesty.”