Saadi Quotes - Page 2

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• Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Elephants

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• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

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  Rose, Sorrow, Together

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• The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

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  Desire, Want, Remedy

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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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  Wise, Ignorance, Order

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.155, Innovations and Information

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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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  Sweet, Elephants, Hair

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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?

  Saadi

  Wise, Philosophy, Book

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• Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

  Saadi

  Wall, Listening, Care

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.149, Innovations and Information

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• No person learned the art of archery from me,
  who did not in the end make me his target.

  Saadi

  Art, Archery, Target

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• O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

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  Wise, Men, Hands

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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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  Ignorance, Notorious, Conversation

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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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  Friendship, Dog, Stones

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• He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

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  Fruit, Contempt, Labor

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• It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

  Saadi

  Sight, Break Off, Enemy

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.111, Innovations and Information

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• Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

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  Deeds, Holiness, Flesh

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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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  Heaven, Earth, Faces

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• Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

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  Faults, Defects, Neighbour

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• If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

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  Gold, Bruises, Pieces

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• Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

  Saadi

  Confidence, Loving Yourself, Sight

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• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

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  Body, Spirit, Empty

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• Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

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  Healing, Teens, Easy

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• A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

  Saadi

  Dog, Grateful, Men

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.166, Innovations and Information

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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

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.

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  Causes, Shyness, Severe

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• 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.

  Saadi

  Years, Rubies, Care

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.160, Innovations and Information

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