The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
SAADIThe stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
More Saadi Quotes
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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
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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 sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.
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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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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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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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It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
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Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
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He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.
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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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