Phaedrus Quotes (24 Quotes)


    Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

    Things are not always what they seem the first appearance deceives many the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

    Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

    Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

    The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.


    The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

    have out of fondness for your offspring attributed to it quite the opposite of its real function. Those who acquire it will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful. ... And as for wisdom, your pupils will have the reputation for it without the reality they will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.

    The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

    It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

    A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.

    I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

    Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

    In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

    Success tempts many to their ruin.

    Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

    In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

    The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

    That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

    An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

    You will soon break the bow if you leave it stretched.

    Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

    Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

    A learned man has always riches in himself.

    The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.


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