Quotes by Phaedrus

• The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
• Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
• Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
• Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
• The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
• The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
• The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
• The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
• Success tempts many to their ruin.
• Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
• Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.
• It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
• In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
• In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
• I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
• That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
• A learned man has always riches in himself.
• Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
• Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
• An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.