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.
SAADITake 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.
More Saadi Quotes
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However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.
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To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
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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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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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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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A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
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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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Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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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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