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• He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 4, 1...
• 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...
• No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 18, 1...
• Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 2, 31...
• That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 9, 1...
• Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 26, 12...
• Things are not always what they seem. -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book iv, Fable 2, 5
• 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 (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 13, 13...
• It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 25, 3...