Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.