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• He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

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  Learning, Men, Life Is Like

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• The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

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  Home, Men, Wealth

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• Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

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  Kings, Men, Order

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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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  People, Evil, Gossip

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• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

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  Perseverance, Together, Barns

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• If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

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  Wise, Art, Truth

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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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  Dog, Grateful, Men

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

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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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  Loud Voices, Doors, House

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

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• Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

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  Comfort, Hoarding, Purpose

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• Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

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  Sex, Husband, Wife

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• It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

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  Essence, Advice, May

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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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  Mean, Men, Dumb

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• The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

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  Father, Teaching, Masters

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• Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

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  Hands, Poverty, Reins

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• The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

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  Wise, Sports, Kings

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.97, Innovations and Information

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• No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

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  Heart, Generosity, Desire

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• That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Harbinger

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• Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

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  Hands, Coins, Half

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• When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

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  War, Mind, Enemy

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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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  Book, Library, Doe

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• Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

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  Men, Liberty, May

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• Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

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  Roots, Sky, Tree

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

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• The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

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  Men, Greed, World

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• Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

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  Heart, Shells, Body

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

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• I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

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  Camels, Habit, Fountain

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