Saadi Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

  Saadi

  Heart, World, Gains

• Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

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  Mind, Appearance, Virtue

• Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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  Tree, Wicked, Prison

• Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

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  Pride, Ancestry, Virtue

• To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

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  Hate, Eye, Hatred

• When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

  Saadi

  Mean, Men, Dumb

• A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Men, Silence

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.97, Innovations and Information

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