196 Quotes by Saadi

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.