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What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
Topic: Breeding
Source: The Two Fishermen (fable xiv)
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It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the
cat] nine lives instead of one.
Topic: Cats
Source: The Greedy and Ambitious Cat (fable iii)
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Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Topic: Conscience
Source: The Prince and his Minister (chap. iii, fable iii)
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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.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Dabschelim and Pilpay (chap. i)
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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.
Topic: Friendship
Source: Choice of Friends (chap. iv)
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There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
Topic: Grudges
Source: A Religious Doctor (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.
Topic: Judgment
Source: The Two Travellers (chap. ii, fable vi)
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Men are used as they use others.
Topic: Manipulation
Source: The King Who Became Just (fable ix)
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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.
Topic: Physicians
Source: The Ignorant Physician (fable viii)
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'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung,
Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.
Topic: Poetry
Source: Anvari Suhaili, (Eastwick's rendering)
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That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
Topic: Possession
Source: The Cat and the Two Birds (chap. v, fable iv)
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Exclusive property is a theft against nature.
[Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]
Topic: Possession
Source: The Cat and the Two Birds (chap. v, fable iv)
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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.
Topic: Repentance
Source: The Prince and his Minister (chap. iii, fable iii)
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He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
Topic: Roses
Source: The Ignorant Physician (fable viii)
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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the
thorns.
Topic: Roses
Source: The Two Travellers (chap. ii, fable vi)
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'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung,
Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.
Topic: Wooing
Source: Anvari Suhaili, (Eastwick's rendering)
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