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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.
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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 (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book i, Fable 13, 13
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Things are not always what they seem. -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book iv, Fable 2, 5
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...