Aesop's Fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

"O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily."

"You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion."