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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

Saadi

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
SAADI

Fake Mischief Peace Truth
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
SAADI

Dog Forget Friendship Himself
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
SAADI

Educational Inspirational Knowledge Practice
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
SAADI

Difficult Easy Inspirational Patience
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
SAADI

Book Carry Learning Library Stupidity
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.
SAADI

Bad Earth Face Fortune Heaven Nature
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
SAADI

Advice Deep Prison Tree Virtue
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
SAADI

Animal Eat Excellence Men Praise Sleep
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
SAADI

God Wisdom Worth
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.
SAADI

Care Expectation Himself Listening Oneself Perfection Return Voice
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
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Bad Disturb God Goodness Sleep
None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
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Secret True Yourself
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
SAADI

Animal Guide Hairs Power Tongue
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
SAADI

Confidence Cry Himself Love People Rich Smile Ugly
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.
SAADI

Different Human Suffering True
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
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Fight Power Togetherness Unity Win

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