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A Mountain Was In Labour, Sending Forth Dreadful Groans, And There Was In The Region The Highest Expectation.
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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 (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book iv, Fable 23, 1
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Things are not always what they seem. -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book iv, Fable 2, 5
He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
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No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.
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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 back
he other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before....
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
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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.
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Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
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Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
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