We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.