Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
SAADIAn enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
More Saadi Quotes
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None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
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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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Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
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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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Publish not men’s secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
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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 acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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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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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
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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 dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
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Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
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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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Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.
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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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In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.
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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
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