Aesop Quotes
Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
Aesop. "The Nurse and the Wolf." Aesop's Fables, translated by George Fyler Townsend, George Routledge and Sons, 1867.
Treason has often been committed by those must trusted in a nation.
See related quote to consider other’s view of the Greeks at the time. The Crusades were going badly for the Christians at this point. The Greek Emperor had, after promising to be a part of the Christian alliance, made a separate treaty with Saladin and the Muslims, making him an outcast and sewing the seeds of the schism between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches.
Aesop (c. 620–564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.
