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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.
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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.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book i, Fable 25, 3
Related:
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...
Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 10, 1...
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 26, 12...
He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 4, 1...
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 2, 31...
Things are not always what they seem. -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book iv, Fable 2, 5
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...
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...
I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book v, Fable 9, 4...