Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

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• Phaedrus:

  Success tempts many to their ruin.

• Phaedrus:

  A learned man has always riches in himself.

• Phaedrus:

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

• Phaedrus:

  Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

• Phaedrus:

  That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

• Phaedrus:

  Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

• Phaedrus:

  The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

• Phaedrus:

  In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

• Phaedrus:

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

• Phaedrus:

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