Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
SAADITake care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
More Saadi Quotes
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Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
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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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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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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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Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
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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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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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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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The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
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A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
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Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
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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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The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
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