Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
[Lat., Id demum est homini read more

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
[Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.]

They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari read more

They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,
Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]

Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]

Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]