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.
SAADIBe not in the desire of thine own ease.
More Saadi Quotes
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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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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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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
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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 wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
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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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It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby – take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.
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A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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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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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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