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Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]


Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)

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PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]
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ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
PHAEDRUS A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
PHAEDRUS I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
PHAEDRUS You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
PHAEDRUS Success tempts many to their ruin.
PHAEDRUS In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
PHAEDRUS Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense...
PHAEDRUS I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
PHAEDRUS First appearance deceives many.
PHAEDRUS Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few ...
PHAEDRUS Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
PHAEDRUS The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
PHAEDRUS Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
PHAEDRUS Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
PHAEDRUS Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
PHAEDRUS Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
PHAEDRUS Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth
PHAEDRUS To add insult to injury.
PHAEDRUS There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
PHAEDRUS The humble suffer when the mighty disagree.
PHAEDRUS Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
PHAEDRUS It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
PHAEDRUS Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.
PHAEDRUS Bores to themselves, to others caviar
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PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
PHAEDRUS The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
PHAEDRUS It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard
PHAEDRUS Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him
PHAEDRUS Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you
PHAEDRUS That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer
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TERESA OF AVILA Hope is the poor man's bread.
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