Phaedrus Quotes

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Love is a serious mental disease.

There is truth in wine and children

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

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

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

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

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

Thou hast added insult to injury.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.