Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
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?
The Wolf and the Shepherds
344. Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.
Thoughts and Apothegms, Part II, Chapter XVIII
345.
A good man should and must
Sit rather down with loss, than rise unjust.
Sejanus (Sabinus), Act IV, Scene III
346. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.
Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise
347.
Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.
Paradise Lost, Bk I, line 371
348. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
The Grandmother, VIII