Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
SAADIReligion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
More Saadi Quotes
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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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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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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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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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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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Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
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O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
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A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
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However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
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The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
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Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
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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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Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
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