“[ The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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“[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Fable XVII, "The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf"
Fables (1727)
“Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.”
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
" Patriotism http://books.google.com/books?id=dFYPAQAAIAAJ&q=%22It%20is%20useless%20for%20the%20sheep%20to%20pass%20resolutions%20in%20favour%20of%20vegetarianism%20while%20the%20wolf%20remains%20of%20a%20different%20opinion%22&pg=PA42-43#v=onepage&q&f=false" (August 1919) in Outspoken Essays (1919), pp. 42-43
“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
“Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.”
Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007.
Context: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
