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Bidpai.

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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. 1

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. 2

The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii.

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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. 3

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. 4

The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv.

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Guilty consciences always make people cowards. 5

The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii.

Note 1.
And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.—Matthew vii. 2. [back]

Note 2.
See Heywood, Quotation 91. [back]