None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
SAADIBe not in the desire of thine own ease.
More Saadi Quotes
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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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Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
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He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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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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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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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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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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Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
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Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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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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Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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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.
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Publish not men’s secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
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No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
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