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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.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 4, 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 2, 31...
• 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...