Unforgettable

You gotta love that a legendary Greek fabulist writing over 2,500 years ago scribbled some pretty politically applicable wisdom...

All from Aesop (629-560 B.C.)

Please all, and you will please none.
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
The Eagle and the Arrow

You have put your head inside a wolf's mouth and taken it out again in safety. That ought to be reward enough for you.
The Wolf and the Crane