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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