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