Phaedrus (fabulist)

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

"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."

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

"Fortes indigne tuli Mihi insultare: te, nature dedecus, Quod ferre certe cogor, bis videor mori."

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

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

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

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

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

"Come of it what may, as Sinon said."

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

"Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity."