His Own Enemy Quotes by Saadi

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Saadi has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one…
• 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 best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor…
• 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…
• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop…
• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

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