Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
SAADIBe generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
More Saadi Quotes
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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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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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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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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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Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
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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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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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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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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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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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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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When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.
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Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
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