"Do good even to the wicked; it is……" — Saadi
"Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb."
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107 Quotes by Saadi
Saadi has 107 quotes on this site.
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When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them…
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Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
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He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
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There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore…
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that…
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of…
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains,…
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your…
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More Crumb Quotes
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one of 43 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
— Wallace Stevens
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Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle…
— Alexander Berkman
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Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from…
— Sue Gardner
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I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of…
— Chester Brown
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At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance…
— John Cheever
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A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his…
— Saadi
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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might…
— Simon Conway Morris
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
— Alison Bechdel
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There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall…
— Paulo Coelho
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As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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