I have seen in my time how easily a man with a piece of cheese in his mouth can be made to drop it...

I have found that the minds of children are like fertile fields. One cannot simply hurl stones of heavy doctrine at them and expect...

I have seen men, like the foolish frog in my tale, destroy themselves by trying to puff themselves up to the size of an...

A story, my friends, is a vessel far stronger than any clay pot for carrying wisdom through the ages. I have seen men forget...

A man's worth is not in the strength of his back, but in the wisdom of his counsel. I have seen kings and merchants...

I have seen how even the fiercest beasts remember a kindness. A lion, his paw swollen by a thorn, did not forget the man...

For many years, I have watched how men, much like the beasts of the field, fall into the same traps time and again. It...

I have told the story of the ant and the grasshopper to many a master and many a slave, and its truth is as...

I have spent my life watching the cunning fox, the proud lion, and the industrious ant. In their simple actions, they reveal the truths...

Men often balk at a direct command, as a horse rears from the whip. But a story? A story slips into the mind like...

I have watched men, like foolish lions, believe their own strength is all that matters, only to be brought down by a pack of...

I have seen that men are often no wiser than the beasts of the field. When two goats meet on a narrow bridge, their...