A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
SAADIPatience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
More Saadi Quotes
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I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
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A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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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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Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
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A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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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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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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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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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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Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
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