It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
SAADIThe remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
More Saadi Quotes
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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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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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
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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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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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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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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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