Phaedrus Quotes

"Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Cause, Excess)

"Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Truth, Fraud)

"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Appearance, First)

"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking."
- Phaedrus
(Related: May, Mind, Thinking)

"The humble are in danger when those in power disagree."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Power, Danger)

"The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Will)

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

"Success tempts many to their ruin."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Success, Ruin)

"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Evil, Present)

"Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Friends, Fun, Strangers)

"It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Advice, Fool)

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

"In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Change, Name, Nothing, Poor)

"I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Liberty)

"That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Disgrace, Man)

"A learned man has always riches in himself."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Man)

"Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Cruelty)

"Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Example, Results)

"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Alliance)