Phaedrus Zitate

„Der Erfolg von Schuften lockt noch mehr Schufte an.“

„Schnell wirst du den Bogen brechen, wenn du ihn immer gespannt hältst.“

„Aber wenn ich so frei bin, etwas des gesagten zu verändern, liegt der Sinn darin, daß Abwechslung Freude macht.“

„Alles, was du den Ausschweifungen hingabst, wird dir verloren sein.“

„Der Gelehrte hat an sich selbst immer einen Schatz.“

„Niemals ist das Bündnis mit einem Mächtigen verlässlich.“

„Oft wird von denen, die wir verachtet haben, gleicher Dank gezollt.“

„So gehen oft große Talente durch Unglück zugrunde.“

„Verbreitet ist die Bezeichnung Freund, doch selten ist die Treue.“

„Wenn der Arme es dem Reichen gleich tun will, so geht er zugrunde.“

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

“It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.”

“Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.”

“By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”

“No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.”

“He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.”

“A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.”

“Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, line he has placed at our backs; the other, lie heavy with those of others, he has hung before.”

“"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.”

“Come of it what may, as Sinon said.”

“A learned man always has riches within himself.”
Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.

“A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"”

“That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.”

“Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.”

“Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.”