Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
SAADINo person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
More Saadi Quotes
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Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog’s mouth with a crumb.
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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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The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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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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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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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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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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All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.
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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
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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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