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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.]
Topic: Advice
Source: Fables (I, 25)
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
[Lat., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor.]
Topic: Covetousness
Source: Fables (II, 1, 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.]
Topic: Cowards
Source: Fables (I, 11, 1)
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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.]
Topic: Disgrace
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.]
Topic: Faults
Source: Fables (bk. IV, 9, 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.]
Topic: Flattery
Source: Fables (I, 13, 1)
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Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
[Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]
Topic: Glory
Source: Fables (III, 17, 12)
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What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury?
[Lat., Quid facies tibi,
Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]
Topic: Insult
Source: Fables (V, 3, 4)
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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.]
Topic: Kindness
Source: Fables (bk. IV, 18)
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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.]
Topic: Misers
Source: Fables (IV, 19, 16)
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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.]
Topic: Misfortune
Source: Fables (I, 21, 1)
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Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
Topic: Misfortune
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.
Topic: Misfortune
Source: Fables (V, 4, 12)
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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.]
Topic: Nothingness
Source: Fables (bk. II, 5, 3)
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Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
[Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.]
Topic: Patience
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.]
Topic: Patience
Source: Fables (I, 26, 12)
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Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
Topic: Revenge
Source: Fables--Appendix (VI, 11)
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All the old knives
That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.
Topic: Revenge
Source: Fables--Appendix (VI, 11)
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It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public.
[Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]
Topic: Sin
Source: Fables (III, Epilogue, 34)
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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.]
Topic: Wealth
Source: Fables (IV, 12, 1)
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