“Things are not always what they seem.”
Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.
Book IV, fable 2, line 5.
Fables
Gaius Julius Phaedrus , Roman fabulist, was a Latin author and versifier of Aesop's fables.
His place of birth is unknown. Traditional biographical reconstructions on the basis of the few autobiographical references within the surviving text tend toward his being a Thracian slave, born in Pydna of Roman Macedonia and alive in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and quite possibly also those of Caligula and Claudius. He is recognized as the first writer to Latinize entire books of fables, retelling in senarii, a loose iambic metre, the Aesopic tales in Greek prose.

“Things are not always what they seem.”
Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.
Book IV, fable 2, line 5.
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“Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.”
Book I, fable 2, line 31.
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Book V, fable 9, line 4.
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Book I, fable 25, line 3.
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Book I, fable 10, line 1.
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Book I, fable 13, line 13.
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“No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.”
Book I, fable 18, line 1.
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“He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.”
Book I, fable 4, line 1.
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“A learned man always has riches within himself.”
Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.
Book VI, fable 22, line 1
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Book V, fable 3, line 1.
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Book I, fable 9, line 1.
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“Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.”
Book V, fable 7, line 4.
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“Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.”
Book I, fable 26, line 12.
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