01In print by 1905 ADWe 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.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
02In print by 1905 ADIt has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
03In print by 1905 ADThere is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
04In print by 1905 ADWise 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.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
06In print by 1905 ADWhat is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
08In print by 1905 ADWhoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
09In print by 1905 ADThere are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
10In print by 1905 ADThere 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.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
11In print by 1905 ADHe that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
12In print by 1905 ADHonest 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.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
13In print by 1905 ADThat possession was the strongest tenure of the law.Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote ↗
