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.
SAADIAll human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.
More Saadi Quotes
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O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.
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None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
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Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
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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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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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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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Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
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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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A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
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A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
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