Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
SAADIMan is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
More Saadi Quotes
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The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.
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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
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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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Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
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There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
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A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
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Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
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Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
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O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
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O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.
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The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
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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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Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
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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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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.
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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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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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