Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
SAADIHe who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
More Saadi Quotes
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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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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The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
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There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
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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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Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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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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Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
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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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