Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
SAADIWhoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
More Saadi Quotes
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
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Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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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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Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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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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Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
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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 hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
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None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
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He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
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The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
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