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