It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
SAADIHoliness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
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The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
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A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
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Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
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Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
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Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
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Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
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All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.
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Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
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A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane.
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The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
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Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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