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"We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again."
Dabschelim and Pilpay. Chap. i.
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"It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one."
The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii.
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"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns."
The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.
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"Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets."
The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.
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"Men are used as they use others."
The King who became Just. Fable ix.
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"What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh."
The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv.
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"Guilty consciences always make people cowards."
The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii.
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"Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain."
The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii.
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"There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good."
A Religious Doctor. Fable vi.
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"There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician."
The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.
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"He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses."
The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.
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"Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us."
Choice of Friends. Chap. iv.
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"That possession was the strongest tenure of the law."
The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv.
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