Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane.
More Saadi Quotes
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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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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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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Publish not men’s secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
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Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
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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?
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If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.
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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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