Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
SAADIWhoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
More Saadi Quotes
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A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby – take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.
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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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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
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Publish not men’s secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
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Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
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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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No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
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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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Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.
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The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
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A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
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Man 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.
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When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.
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A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
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Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
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A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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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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Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog’s mouth with a crumb.
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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?
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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
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