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«In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain»
Author: Phaedrus | Keywords: block, gild, gilded, gilding, gilds, splendid
«Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you»
Author: Phaedrus | Keywords: befall
«Bores to themselves, to others caviar»
Author: Phaedrus | Keywords: bores
«Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him»
Author: Phaedrus | Keywords: gull, gulled, gulls
«It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard»
Author: Phaedrus
«The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.»
Author: Phaedrus
«Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.»
Author: Phaedrus
«The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.»
Author: Phaedrus
«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.»
Author: Phaedrus
«In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.»
Author: Phaedrus

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