The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
SAADIBe not in the desire of thine own ease.
More Saadi Quotes
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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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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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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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A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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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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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
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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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You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
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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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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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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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