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.
SAADIYou who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
More Saadi Quotes
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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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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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
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Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
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A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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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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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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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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