Things are not always what they seem.[716:1]
Book iv. Fable 2, 5.
Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before.[716:2]
Book iv. Fable 10, 1.
A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.[716:3]
Book iv. Fable 23, 1.
A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
Book v. Fable 3, 1.
"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.
Book v. Fable 9, 4.