A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby – take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.
SAADIThe remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
More Saadi Quotes
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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
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He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
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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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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
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Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
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Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
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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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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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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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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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