Aesops's Moral: Do not sacrifice your freedom for the sake of pomp and show.
Aesop's Moral: We often make much of the ornamental, and despise the useful.
Aesop's Moral: Do not let your hopes carry you away from reality.
Aesop's Moral: Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.
Aesop's Moral: There is always someone worse off than ourselves.
Aesop's Moral: A knave's hypocrisy is easily seen through.
Aesop's Moral: The tyrant can always find an excuse for his tyranny.
Aesop's Moral: Those who have all the toil do not always get all the profit.
Aesop's Moral: Preparedness for war, is the best guarantee of peace.
Aesop's Moral: Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them.
Aesop's Moral: The least of our enemies is often the most to be feared.
Aesop's Moral: The same measures will not suit all circumstances.
Aesop's Moral: It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.
Aesop's Moral: Do not try to take the credit to your self, that is due to others.
Aesop's Moral: There's a time for work & a time for play.
Aesop's Moral: In a pinch, a good use of our wits may help us out.