Quotes by Phaedrus

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. >>

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better >>

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty. >>

Quotations about Lies and Lying

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himsel >>

I am a lie who always speaks the truth. >>

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. >>

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus