Quotes from book
Fables

Name: Fables
Author: Phaedrus

Phaedrus

“Things are not always what they seem.”
Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.

Phaedrus book Fables

Book IV, fable 2, line 5.
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“Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book I, fable 2, line 31.
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Book I, fable 25, line 3.
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“Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book I, fable 10, line 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.”

Phaedrus book Fables

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.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book I, fable 18, line 1.
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“He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book I, fable 4, line 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.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book IV, fable 23, line 1.
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“Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, line he has placed at our backs; the other, lie heavy with those of others, he has hung before.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book IV, fable 10, line 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.”

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Book V, fable 9, line 4.
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“Come of it what may, as Sinon said.”

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Book III. The Prologue, line 27.
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“A learned man always has riches within himself.”
Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.

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Book VI, fable 22, line 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?"”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book V, fable 3, line 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.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book I, fable 9, line 1.
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“Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book V, fable 7, line 4.
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“Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.”

Phaedrus book Fables

Book I, fable 26, line 12.
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