Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
SAADIA lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
More Saadi Quotes
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To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
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It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
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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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Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that 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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A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog’s mouth with a crumb.
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I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.
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A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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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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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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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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Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
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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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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
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