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
to others, I will show in a few lines.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book i, Fable 9, 1
Related:
- He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 4,... - No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.
Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 18,... - 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,... - Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud,
even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief. -- Phaedrus... - Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 26,... - Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 2,... - By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity
avails,
and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength... - It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along,
that they may not be seized by the crocodiles. --... - Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one,
filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs...
