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Muslih-uddin Sadi Quotes

«Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage»
Author: Muslih-uddin Sadi | About: Pride | Keywords: parentage
«A scholar without diligence is a lover without money»
Author: Muslih-uddin Sadi | Keywords: diligence, scholar
«To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer»
«Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance»
«Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it»
«Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good»
«An ill-humored man is a prisoner at the mercy of an enemy from whom he can never escape»
«Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him who plows his land and leaves it unsown»
Author: Muslih-uddin Sadi | About: Knowledge | Keywords: acquires, plows, resembles, unsown
«God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed»
Author: Muslih-uddin Sadi | About: Mankind | Keywords: undisturbed
«They asked Lucman, the fabulist, 'From whom did you learn manners?' He answered: 'From the unmannerly»

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