It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
SAADIHe 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.
More Saadi Quotes
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In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.
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A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
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The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.
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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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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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I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
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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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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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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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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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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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A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
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Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
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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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