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"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."
Phædrus / Book i. Fable 2, 31.
Book i. Fable 2, 31.
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"He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own."
Phædrus / Book i. Fable 4, 1.
Book i. Fable 4, 1.
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"That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines."
Phædrus / Book i. Fable 9, 1.
Book i. Fable 9, 1.
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"Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief."
Phædrus / Book i. Fable 10, 1.
Book i. Fable 10, 1.
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"By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength."
Phædrus / Book i. Fable 13, 13.
Book i. Fable 13, 13.
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"No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief."
Phædrus / Book i. Fable 18, 1.
Book i. Fable 18, 1.
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"It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles."
Phædrus / Book i. Fable 25, 3.
Book i. Fable 25, 3.
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"Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example."
Phædrus / Book i. Fable 26, 12.
Book i. Fable 26, 12.
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"Come of it what may, as Sinon said."
Phædrus / Book iii. The Prologue, 27.
Book iii. The Prologue, 27.
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"Things are not always what they seem."
Phædrus / Book iv. Fable 2, 5.
Book iv. Fable 2, 5.
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"Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before."
Phædrus / Book iv. Fable 10, 1.
Book iv. Fable 10, 1.
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"A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse."
Phædrus / Book iv. Fable 23, 1.
Book iv. Fable 23, 1.
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"A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?""
Phædrus / Book v. Fable 3, 1.
Book v. Fable 3, 1.
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""I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself."
Phædrus / Book v. Fable 9, 4.
Book v. Fable 9, 4.
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