"Obedience is not truly performed by the body……" — Saadi

"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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107 Quotes by Saadi

Saadi has 107 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…
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…
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that…
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…
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains,…
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 Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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