The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
SAADIWhen a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
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Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.
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The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
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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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A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
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God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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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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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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The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
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I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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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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