He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book i, Fable 4, 1
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book i, Fable 4, 1
Related:
- Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 26,... - 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... - No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.
Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 18,... - Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one,
filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs... - Things are not always what they seem.
-- Phaedrus (c.
8 A.D.) -- Book iv, Fable 2,... - 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... - Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 2,... - A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans,
and there was in the region the highest expectation...
