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• There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
  -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Two Travellers, Chap. ii, Fable vi...
• It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. viii...
• Men are used as they use others. -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The King who became Just, Chap.
  ii, Fable ix...
• That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
  -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Cat and the two Birds, Chap. v, Fable iv...
• He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
  -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Ignorant Physician, Chap. iii, Fable viii...
• 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 prince
  hey who make use of poison to show their skill in curing i...
• Guilty consciences always make people cowards. -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Prince and his Minister, Chap.
  iii, Fable iii...
• 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, Chap. i, Fable iii...
• There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
  -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- A Religious Doctor, Chap. iii, Fable vi...