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It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

Saadi

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
SAADI

Art Ignorance Practice Reading Theory
Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
SAADI

Advice Help Men Wisdom
Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
SAADI

Care Listening Yourself
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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Accomplishment Patience Ruin
A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
SAADI

Appearance Face Heart Keys Love Wound
A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
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Appearance Jewel Treasure Woman Worth
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
SAADI

Company Intelligence Need Society
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
SAADI

Difficult Easy Inspirational Patience
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
SAADI

Forgiveness God Myself Prayer Sin
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.
SAADI

Enemy Men See Trouble Yourself
Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
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Bold Encouragement Shy
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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Healing Lying Scars Truth Wound
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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Enemy Kind Learning Man Religious Rule
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
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Animal Eat Excellence Men Praise Sleep
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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Care Expectation Himself Listening Oneself Perfection Return Voice
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
SAADI

Inspirational Knowledge Travel Wasted Wings

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