An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
SAADIThe remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
More Saadi Quotes
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Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
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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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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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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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Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
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A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane.
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Publish not men’s secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
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A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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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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O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
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Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.
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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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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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