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Things Are Not Always What They Seem. -- Phaedrus (c.
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Things are not always what they seem.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book iv, Fable 2, 5
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Things are not always what they seem. -- Phaedru
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 2, 31...
He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 4, 1...
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...
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...
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 26, 12...
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...
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....
Come of it what may, as Sinon said. -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book iii, The Prologue, 27