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Saadi
65 quotes
“Obedience is not truly performed by the body, if the heart is dissatisfied.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Were the king at noonday to say, "This day is night," it would behoove us to reply, "Lo! there are the moon and seven stars!”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; if he were sensible of this he would not be ignorant.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good maybe undisturbed.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who ploughs in his field but does not sow.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Abar gar ab-i-zindagi barad Hargiz az shakh-i-bed bar na khori Bar faromaya rozgar mabar Kaz nai boriya shakar nakhori.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gulistan, Chapter 1, story 4. Tr. Edward B. Eastwick (1852) p. 41
“Agar dunya na bashad, dardmandem Wa agar bashad, ba mihrash pae bandem Bala'e z'in jahan ashubtar nest Ki ranj-i-khatirast ar hast wa nest.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gulistan, Chapter 2, story 29. Tr. Edward B. Eastwick (1852) p. 131
“Agar sad sal gabar atish farozad Wa gar ek dam daru uftad basozad.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gulistan, Chapter 1, story 16. Tr. Edward B. Eastwick (1852) p. 60
“Ahanera ki morchana bikhurad Natawan burd azū basaiqal zang; Ba siyah dil che sud guftan w'az? Narawad mekh-i-ahanin dar sang.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gulistan, Chapter 2, story 20. Tr. Edward B. Eastwick (1852) p. 118
“Akibat gurg-zade gurg shavad Garche ba adami buzurg shavad.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gulistan, Chapter 1, story 4. Tr. E. G. Brown, A Year Amongst the Persians (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1893) p. 285
“From earth arise bright colors, scent, and food, To please the eye, the brain, and hunger’s mood. Bees honey give, sweet dew the heavens shed, The dates from palms, and trees from seeds are bred. Gnawing his hand, each gardener shows despair: For who but He can make the world so fair? The sun, the moon, the Pleiades on high,— Thy chandeliers; thy palace roof, the sky! The rose from thorns, and musk from bags He brings; Gold from the mines, a leaf from dry wood springs. His own hand drew thine eye and brow so fair; A friend one cannot leave to other’s care. That mighty One, who hath so cherished thee With blessings varied as the colored sea,— In praising him, our lives we ought to spend: Our tongues can’t count his virtues without end. O God! my heart is blood, sore wounds mine eyes: For, lo! I see thy praise beyond me lies. I say not beasts and ants and flies thee praise, But angel hosts, amazed, their hands upraise! Although by all the world thy praise is rung, Ten thousand thousands yet remain unsung. Saadi, depart! thy pen and paper quit; Take not that road which has no end to it!”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Suna’s town, my child’s life passed away; How can I tell the sadness of that day! As fair as Joseph, God creates a slave; Then, Jonah-like, he’s swallow’d by the grave. In this fair world, scarce grown, the cypress form Uprooted is, by death’s relentless storm. It is not strange the rose on earth should grow, So many rose-like bodies sleep below. Madly I longed to see his form once more, So off the tomb the weighty stone I tore. Fear seized me in that place, so dark and strange: It made me shake, and all my color change. Then came a voice (my child’s) from out the bier: "Dost thou feel terror at this darksome sight? Live, then, with care, and let thy works be bright. If thou dost wish thy grave as light as day, Illume life’s lamp with virtue’s shining ray." Saadi, he eats the fruit who plants the tree; Who sows the seed will fruitful harvests see.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source