What does it mean?
Even a tiny kind act matters and can come back to help you. The idea comes from the fable of the lion who spares a mouse, and the mouse later saves him.
Key vocabulary
- no matter how
- however; it doesn't matter how
Who said it?
Aesop: Ancient Greek storyteller (c. 620–564 BC).
These exact words are widely credited to Aesop, but they don’t appear in their known work. They may be a later paraphrase or a misattribution.