Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai)
-- The Prince and his Minister, Chap. iii, Fable iii
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai)
-- The Prince and his Minister, Chap. iii, Fable iii
Related:
- Whoever... prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator,
will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain. -... - He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Ignorant Physician, Chap... - 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... - There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- A Religious Doctor, Chap. iii... - 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... - What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Two Fishermen, Chap. ii... - Men are used as they use others.
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai)
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The King who became Just, Chap. ii, Fable... - That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Cat and the two Birds, Chap... - There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Two Travellers, Chap. ii...
From the same category:
- CELLISTS give
better hand... - quick-and-dirty: adj. Describes a {crock} put together under time
or user pressure.
Used esp. when you want to convey that you think ... - Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage... - Incest:
Keep it in the family... - Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
The latter cannot understand it when a man does not...
