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

— Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

About Aesop

Storyteller traditionally credited with a collection of Greek fables, said to have lived in the 6th century BCE.

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

“Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”

“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”

“Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe.”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”