That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai)
-- The Cat and the two Birds, Chap. v, Fable iv
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai)
-- The Cat and the two Birds, Chap. v, Fable iv
Related:
- There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Two Travellers, Chap. ii... - What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Two Fishermen, Chap. ii... - It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat]
nine lives instead of one.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Greedy and Ambitious Cat... - Men are used as they use others.
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai)
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The King who became Just, Chap. ii, Fable... - Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai)
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The Prince and his Minister, Chap. iii, Fable... - He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Ignorant Physician, Chap... - There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- A Religious Doctor, Chap. iii... - 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... - 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. -- Pilpay...
