You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Phaedrus Quotes
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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Endure this evil lest a worse come upon you.
He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest.
O that such beauty should be so devoid of understanding!
Fables, I, 7, 2. Reported in Hoyt's (1922)
A partnership with men in power is never safe.
Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
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.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth.
He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
The success of the wicked entices many more.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Phaedrus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.