| 20 Famous Quotes by Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
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“Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
[Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]”
Glory Quotes Source: Fables (III, 17, 12)
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“Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
[Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.]”
Patience Quotes Source: Fables (I, 26, 12)
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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]”
Patience Quotes Source: Fables (I, 26, 12)
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“A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is
a laughing-stock to those who know him.
[Lat., Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam
Ignotos fallit, notis est derisui.]”
Cowards Quotes Source: Fables (I, 11, 1)
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“They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,
Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]”
Flattery Quotes Source: Fables (I, 13, 1)
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“Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a
well-stored chest intercepts the truth.
[Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,
Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Fables (IV, 12, 1)
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“True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
[Lat., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor.]”
Covetousness Quotes Source: Fables (II, 1, 12)
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“Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your
your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser?
[Lat., Abiturus illuc priores abierunt,
Quid mente caeca torques spiritum?
Tibi dico, avare.]”
Misers Quotes Source: Fables (IV, 19, 16)
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“He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted
against his own interest.
[Lat., Colubram sustulit
Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]”
Kindness Quotes Source: Fables (bk. IV, 18)
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“That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
[Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.]”
Disgrace Quotes Source: Fables (III, 11, 7)
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“Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each
person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front
he has hung a heavy one full of other people's.
[Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas.
Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit;
Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.]”
Faults Quotes Source: Fables (bk. IV, 9, 1)
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“It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public.
[Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]”
Sin Quotes Source: Fables (III, Epilogue, 34)
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“What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury?
[Lat., Quid facies tibi,
Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]”
Insult Quotes Source: Fables (V, 3, 4)
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“Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains
and are laughed to scorn.
[Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,
Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]”
Advice Quotes Source: Fables (I, 25)
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“Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race
(of busybodies) hurtful to itself and most hateful to all others.
[Lat., Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens.
Sibi molesta, et aliis odiosissima.]”
Nothingness Quotes Source: Fables (bk. II, 5, 3)
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“Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]”
Revenge Quotes Source: Fables--Appendix (VI, 11)
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“All the old knives
That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.”
Revenge Quotes Source: Fables--Appendix (VI, 11)
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“Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity
the scorn even of the base.
[Lat., Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam
Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi.]”
Misfortune Quotes Source: Fables (I, 21, 1)
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“Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]”
Misfortune Quotes Source: Fables (V, 4, 12)
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“I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's
misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”
Misfortune Quotes Source: Fables (V, 4, 12)
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