The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
SAADIThe bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
More Saadi Quotes
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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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However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
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Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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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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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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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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Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
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