Phaedrus

Books by Phaedrus

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In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
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The mind ought to be amused, that it may the better return to thought, and to itself.
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Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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A learned man has always wealth in himself.
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In a change of government, the poor change nothing beyond the change of their master.
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A partnership with the powerful is never safe.
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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
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Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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There is no shame in the accidents of chance, but only in the consequence of our own misdeeds.
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