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You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

Saadi

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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Enemy Kind Learning Man Religious Rule
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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Confidence Cry Himself Love People Rich Smile Ugly
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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Animal Guide Hairs Power Tongue
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
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Fake God Saint Sin Thinking Word
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
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Escape Fruit Himself Live
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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Adversity Hard Time Men Prosperity Worth
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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Forgiveness Oppression Wound
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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Difference Expectation Eyes Herself Himself
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Inspirational Patience
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
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Oneself Reveal Secret Silence Talk
I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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Journey Lost Men Myself Path See Straight Struggle
It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
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Heart Oneself Person Virtue World
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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Goodness Himself Ignorance Men Silence
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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Creation Essence Human Pain Soul Sympathy Uncomfortable Yourself
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.
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Different Human Suffering True
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
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Animal Eat Excellence Men Praise Sleep

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

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