| 16 Famous Quotes by Bidpai (Pilpay)
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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.”
Judgment Quotes 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.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Anvari Suhaili, (Eastwick's rendering)
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“'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung,
Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Anvari Suhaili, (Eastwick's rendering)
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“That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.”
Possession Quotes 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.]”
Possession Quotes Source: The Cat and the Two Birds (chap. v, fable iv)
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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.”
Friendship Quotes Source: Choice of Friends (chap. iv)
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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.”
Deeds Quotes Source: 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.”
Cats Quotes Source: The Greedy and Ambitious Cat (fable iii)
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“He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.”
Roses Quotes Source: The Ignorant Physician (fable viii)
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“There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the
thorns.”
Roses Quotes Source: The Two Travellers (chap. ii, 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.”
Physicians Quotes Source: The Ignorant Physician (fable viii)
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“Men are used as they use others.”
Manipulation Quotes Source: The King Who Became Just (fable ix)
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“Guilty consciences always make people cowards.”
Conscience Quotes Source: 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.”
Repentance Quotes Source: 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.”
Grudges Quotes Source: A Religious Doctor (fable vi)
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“What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.”
Breeding Quotes Source: The Two Fishermen (fable xiv)
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Bidpai (Pilpay) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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