The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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.
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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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The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
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A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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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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Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.
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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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No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
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Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
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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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However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
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