Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
SaadiSaadi Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
SaadiSaadi The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
SaadiSaadi There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
SaadiSaadi A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
SaadiSaadi Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
SaadiSaadi Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
SaadiSaadi He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
SaadiSaadi It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
SaadiSaadi Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
SaadiSaadi If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
SaadiSaadi Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
SaadiSaadi Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
SaadiSaadi When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
SaadiSaadi When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
SaadiSaadi A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
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