Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
SAADIReveal 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.
More Saadi Quotes
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
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Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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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 heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
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A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
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A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
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Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.
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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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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
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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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