“ I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself. Phaedrus ★ 4,6 ♥ 72 ⧉ ♡
“ 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 ★ 5,0 ♥ 223 ⧉ ♡
“ It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles. Phaedrus ★ 4,5 ♥ 212 ⧉ ♡
“ Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief. Phaedrus ★ 5,0 ♥ 146 ⧉ ♡
“ That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines. Phaedrus ★ 4,6 ♥ 197 ⧉ ♡
“ Ill have I brook’d that nobler foes Should triumph o’er my dying woes: But, scorn of nature, forced to lie And take thy taunts, is twice to die. Phaedrus ★ 4,7 ♥ 179 ⧉ ♡
“ Fortes indigne tuli Mihi insultare: te, nature dedecus, Quod ferre certe cogor, bis videor mori. Phaedrus ★ 4,8 ♥ 247 ⧉ ♡
“ A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury? Phaedrus ★ 4,6 ♥ 125 ⧉ ♡
“ Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, line he has placed at our backs; the other, lie heavy with those of others, he has hung before. Phaedrus ★ 4,6 ♥ 101 ⧉ ♡
