03UndatedThat it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.Phædrus / quote ↗
04UndatedWhoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.Phædrus / quote ↗
05UndatedBy this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.Phædrus / quote ↗
07UndatedIt has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.Phædrus / quote ↗
11UndatedJupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before.Phædrus / quote ↗
12UndatedA mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.Phædrus / quote ↗
13UndatedA 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; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"Phædrus / quote ↗
14Undated"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.Phædrus / quote ↗
15UndatedId demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati. That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.Phædrus / quote ↗
