I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.
SAADITake 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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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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A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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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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A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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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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However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog’s mouth with a crumb.
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Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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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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Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
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A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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