“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

— Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb

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.”

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

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

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”