An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
SAADIWhoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
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All 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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Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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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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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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Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
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Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
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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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Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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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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Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
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Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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