Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
SAADIJoy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
More Saadi Quotes
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Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
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Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
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God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
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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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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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Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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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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A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
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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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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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He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
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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 hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
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