Sublime

‘If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl,’ said Sa’di, a Persian poet from the thirteenth century.

‘I’m he whose duty it is to take care of human beings.

Regard him as loyal, and you will make him loyal.

Heaped treasure cannot be kept for long. Pride from success sows the seeds of collapse.

A fable is generally a fiction, as has already been said. It is a singular paradox, however, that nothing is truer than a good fable. True to intuition, true to nature, true to fact. The great virtue of fables consists in this quality of truthfulness, and their enduring life and popularity are corroboration of

It is a remarkable circumstance in connection with the literature of fable, that those who have excelled in it are comparatively few. The principal names that occur to us are Æsop, La Fontaine, Gay, Lessing, Krilof; 'the rest are all but leather or prunello,' if we except a few rare examples from Northcote and Cowper. The composition of fables seem

He had understood the story the old king had told him. A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget about his sheep.

“Vires Acquirit Eundo” We Gather Strength as We Go. -Virgil

The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.