Quote

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

Saadi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saadi
Poet
Writer
Shiraz city
Saadi Shirazi
Human
Humans
Feel
Feels
Fitting
Called
Suffering
Pain
Others

More quotes by Saadi

Image
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.
Saadi
Image
Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom seeFor bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
Saadi
Image
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.
Saadi
Image
Liberty is of more value than any gifts and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.
Saadi
Image
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Saadi
Image
Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.
Saadi
Image
Fear not the proud and the haughty fear rather him who fears God.
Saadi
Image
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.
Saadi
Image
He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.
Saadi
Image
The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
Saadi
Image
It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
Saadi
Image
Independence is of more value than any gifts and to receive gifts is to lose it.
Saadi
Image
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
Saadi
Image
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
Saadi
Image
The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.
Saadi
Image
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Saadi
Image
Do good even to the wicked it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.
Saadi
Image
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.
Saadi
Image
All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.
Saadi
Image
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
Saadi