Aesop
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop
Ancient Greek storyteller (619 BC–563 BC)
- Fame80.2
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#139
Source-basedStable
- Fame80.2
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#139
- Academics rank#53
- Wikipedia48K
Lived -620–-564, aged 56
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Summary
Updated 2026-06-08
A Greek storyteller from the 6th century BCE who may never have existed, yet whose name stuck to a vast body of animal fables that shaped moral instruction across two and a half millennia.
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Scattered ancient references place Aesop around 620–564 BCE, but no writings by him survive and his existence remains unclear. The Aesop Romance, an ancient literary work, presents him as a strikingly ugly slave who won freedom through cleverness and rose to advise kings and city-states — a biography probably more fiction than fact. What endured was the tradition: fables featuring anthropomorphic animals gathered under his name across centuries and languages. Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch all mentioned him, cementing the association. The tales outlasted their teller, real or invented, and…
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Aesop
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
— The Wolf and the Lamb.
Aesop
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Appearances often are deceiving.
— The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Aesop
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
— Juno and the Peacock.
Aesop
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
— The Lion, The Ass, And The Fox Hunting.
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Stable80.2
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Now attention27.2
Source confidence65.0
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