Quotes Tagged With :saadi

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

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

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise,....

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without....

If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.