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Phaedrus Quotes

Latin fabulist and probably a Thracian slave

Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius.

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Alternative Names: Gaius Julius Phaedrus • Phædrus

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Similar: Aesop 54.2% Seneca 52.3% Euripides 52.1% Publilius Syrus 52.1% Sophocles 51.7% Aeschylus 51.6% Jean de La Fontaine 51.2% George Herbert 50.8% Thomas Fuller 50.7% Benjamin Franklin 50.4%
He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.

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

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Ill have I brook’d that nobler foes
Should triumph o’er my dying woes:
But, scorn of nature, forced to lie
And take thy taunts, is twice to die.

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