Saadi Quotes

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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…
• Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
• He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.
• Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
• Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
• Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
• There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
• The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the…
• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
• To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
• 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…
• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
• An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
• Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.
• Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
• The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others…
• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
• Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
• Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy

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