Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
SAADIWhen a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
More Saadi Quotes
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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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Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
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Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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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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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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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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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.
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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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He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.
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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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A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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