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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Saadi

Publish not men’s secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
SAADI

Grace Men Mistake Reputation Secret Yourself
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
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God Wisdom Worth
Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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Body Empty Mindset See Soul Wisdom
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
SAADI

Advice Deep Prison Tree Virtue
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
SAADI

Happiness Sex Voice Woman
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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Company Intelligence Need Society
Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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Holy Need Starve
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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Art Ignorance Practice Reading Theory
A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
SAADI

Beautiful Money Worth
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
SAADI

Dog Forget Friendship Himself
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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Forgiveness Oppression Wound
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
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Animal Eat Excellence Men Praise Sleep
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.
SAADI

Different Human Suffering True
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
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Escape Fruit Himself Live
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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Adversity Hard Time Men Prosperity Worth
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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Evil Goodness People

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