Quotations by:
    Phaedrus

The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may better return to thought, and to itself.

Phaedrus (15 BC-AD 50) Roman fabulist, poet

(Atributed)

Quoted in Henry Southgate, Things a Lady Would Like to Know Concerning Domestic Management (1875).

Cito rumpes arcum si habueris semper tensum, at si laxaris erit utilis cum voles
[You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched, but if you slacken it, it will be fit for use when you wish.]

Phaedrus (15 BC-AD 50) Roman fabulist, poet

Fables, Book 3, #14, “Aesop Playing”

Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.
[Things are not always what they seem.]

Phaedrus (15 BC-AD 50) Roman fabulist, poet

Fables, Book 4, #2

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Phaedrus (15 BC-AD 50) Roman fabulist, poet

Fables, Book I, fable 26, line 12