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Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

Saadi

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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Argument Discover Ignorance Order Wisdom Yourself
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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Inspirational Knowledge Travel Wasted Wings
Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
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People Prayer Religion Service
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
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Feeling Human Pain Suffering Yourself
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Forgiveness God Myself Prayer Sin
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
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Affect Appearance Eyes Heart Impression
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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Body Compassion Essence Human Pain Suffering Yourself
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.
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Enemy Men See Trouble Yourself
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Difficult Easy Inspirational Patience Sports
A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
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Appearance Jewel Treasure Woman Worth
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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Action Book Empty Fire Himself Intellectual Learning Philosophy Study Wisdom
A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
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Beautiful Money Worth
To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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Deal Harsh Oppression Sorry
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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Hurry Wasted
I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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Journey Lost Men Myself Path See Straight Struggle
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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Advice Deep Prison Tree Virtue
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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Deep Entertainment Friendship Wisdom
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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Goodness Himself Ignorance Men Silence
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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Difference Expectation Eyes Herself Himself
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
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Forgiveness Generosity God People
Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog’s mouth with a crumb.
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Dog Goodness Talk
A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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Appearance Face Heart Keys Love Wound
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
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Animal Eat Excellence Men Praise Sleep
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
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God Myself Rich Satisfaction Wealth
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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Enemy Friendship Intelligence Secret
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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Himself Judgement Night Recovery Wine
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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Adversity Hard Time Men Prosperity Worth

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