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Adversity
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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Argument & Debate
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Charity
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Food
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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God
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Gratitude
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I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kfah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed,
trans. Edward B. Eastwick
-Sa'di, The Gulistan (or Rose Garden), chapter 3, story 19
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Observation
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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Patience
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Persistence
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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.
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Practice
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How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.
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Spirituality
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Books by and about Sa'di