There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
SAADIHoliness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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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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Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
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A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
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The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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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 traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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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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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
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A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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Publish not men’s secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
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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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No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.
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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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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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