Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

343. What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?

James Beattie (1768-1790)

The Wolf and the Shepherds

344. Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.

Richard Whately (1787-1863)

Thoughts and Apothegms, Part II, Chapter XVIII

345. A good man should and must
Sit rather down with loss, than rise unjust.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Sejanus (Sabinus), Act IV, Scene III

346. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise

347. Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk I, line 371

348. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Grandmother, VIII