A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
SAADIWhatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
More Saadi Quotes
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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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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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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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Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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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 has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
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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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Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
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Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
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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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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
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