It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
SAADIHe who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
More Saadi Quotes
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Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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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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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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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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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
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A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
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A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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