All Saadi Quotes
- 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… Adversaries
- A little beauty is preferable to much wealth. Beauty
- If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure. Ask
- Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. Conversation
- Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome. Child
- Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning. Church
- So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger. Answer
- A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates. Face
- The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger. Foreigners
- The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power. Arm
- 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… Better
- To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish. Appears
- Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb. Crumb
- The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men. Adam
- To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl. Boiled
- The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man. Brought
- Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings. Company
- That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be. Allotted
- In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. Brute
- Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness. Boldness