Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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.
More Saadi Quotes
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To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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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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Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
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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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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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A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
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A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
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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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Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
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Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
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The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
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God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
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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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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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