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Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 26 Sa di	I have seen a fat fool, dressed in a costly robe, with a turban of Egyptian linen on his head, riding on an Arab horse. Someone said: ‘Sa’di, what...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 27 Sa di	A thief said to a mendicant: ‘Art thou not ashamed to stretch out thy hand for a grain of silver to every sordid fellow?’ He...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 28 Sa di	It is related that an athlete had been reduced to the greatest distress by adverse fortune. His throat being capacious and his hands unable to fill...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 29 Sa di	I heard that a dervish, sitting in a cave, had closed the doors upon the face of the world, so that no regard for kings and rich persons remained in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 01 Sa di	to a friend that I have chosen rather to be silent than to speak because on most occasions good and bad words are scattered concurrently but...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 02 Sa di	A merchant, having suffered loss of a thousand dinars, enjoined his son not to reveal it to anyone. The boy said: ‘It is thy order and I shall not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 03 Sa di	An intelligent youth possessed an abundant share of accomplishments and discreet behaviour so that he was allowed to sit in assemblies of learned men...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 04 Sa di	A scholar of note had a controversy with an unbeliever but, being unable to cope with him in argument, shook his head and retired. Someone asked him...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 05 Sa di	Galenus saw a fool hanging on with his hands to the collar of a learned man and insulting him, whereon he said: ‘If he were learned he would not have...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 06 Sa di	Subhan Vail is considered to have had no equal in rhetorics because he had addressed an assembly during a year and had not repeated the same word...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 07 Sa di	I heard a philosopher say that no one has ever made a confession of his own folly except he who begins speaking, whilst another has not yet finished...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 08 Sa di	Several officials of Sultan Mahmud asked Hasan Muimandi one day what the sultan had told him about a certain affair. He replied: ‘You must yourselves...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 09 Sa di	I was hesitating in the conclusion of a bargain for the purchase of a house when a Jew said: ‘Buy it for I am one of the landholders of this ward....	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 10 Sa di	A poet went to an amir of robbers and recited a panegyric but he ordered him to be divested of his robe. As the poor man was departing naked in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 11 Sa di	An astrologer, having entered his own house, saw a stranger and, getting angry, began to insult him, whereon both fell upon each other and fought so...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 12 Sa di	A preacher imagined his miserable voice to be pleasing and raised useless shouts, thou wouldst have said that the crow of separation had become the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 13 Sa di	A man used to shout superfluous calls to prayers in the mosque of Sinjar and in a voice which displeased all who heard it. The owner of the mosque,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 14 Sa di	A fellow with a disagreeable voice happened to be reading the Quran, when a pious man passed near, and asked him what his monthly salary was. He...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 01 Sa di	Hasan Maimundi was asked that, as the Sultan Mahmud possesses so many beautiful slaves, each of whom is a marvel in the world, how it happens that he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 02 Sa di	It is said that a gentleman possessed a slave of exquisite beauty, whom he regarded with love and affection. He nevertheless said to a friend: ‘Would...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 03 Sa di	I saw a religious man, who had fallen in love with a fellow to such a degree that he had neither strength to remain patient nor to bear the talk of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 04 Sa di	One had lost his heart and bidden farewell to his life because the target which he aimed at was in a dangerous locality, portending destruction and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 05 Sa di	A schoolboy was so perfectly beautiful and sweet-voiced that the teacher, in accordance with human nature, conceived such an affection towards him...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 06 Sa di	I remember that one night a dear friend of mine entered when I jumped up in such a heedless way that the lamp was extinguished by my sleeve. A vision...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 07 Sa di	One who had for a considerable time not seen his friend asked him where he had been and said he had been longing. He replied: ‘To be longing is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)