A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
SAADIUse a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
More Saadi Quotes
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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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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Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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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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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
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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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O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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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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However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
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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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I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.
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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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