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• To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

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  Pardon, Tyranny, Deals

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• Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Thee

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• O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

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  Contentment, Wealth, Rich

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• To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

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  Truth, Lying, Cutting

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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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  Soul, Mind, Body

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• Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

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  Men, Secret, Faults

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.156, Innovations and Information

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• A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

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  Mingling, Mischief, Stirring

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• God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.

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  Sleep, Order, Giving

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• Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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  Tree, Wicked, Prison

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• The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

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  Fall, Humble, Humility

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• Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

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  Children, Thinking, Perfect

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• Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

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  Kings, Intelligent, Needs

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• Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

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  Fear, Thinking, Sharks

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• Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

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  Prayer, People, Religion

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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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  Ignorance, Men, Silence

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

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• Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

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  Haste, Waste

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• The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

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  Hands, Generosity, Stronger

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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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  Pain, Compassion, Essence

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• Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

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  Wise, Men, Comfort

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.147, Innovations and Information

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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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  Kindness, Anger, People

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• There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

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  Soul, Body, Spirituality

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• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

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  God, Intellectual, Next

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• When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

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  Sleep, Men, Appreciate

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• A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

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  Adversity, Men, Prosperity

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• The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

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  No Friends, Stranger, Foreigners

  "Gulistan". Book by Saadi Shirazi (translated by James Ross), ch. 3, story 28, 1258.

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