Phaedrus Quotes
- Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
- The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
- Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
- An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
- Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
- The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
- I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
- It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
- Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
- Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
- Success tempts many to their ruin.
- A learned man has always riches in himself.
- Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
- Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.
- That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
- Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
- The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
- The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
- The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
- Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.