Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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?
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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.
A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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
Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
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