Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about death, man
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Often the best way of giving oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
If you walk with your feet your shoe will get worn, if you walk with your head, your hat.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heads
Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about thinking
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about sin, people, things
I have no right to rejoice at the death of my enemy when I do not have eternal life myself.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about rightness, enemies, death, life
It takes two days to learn everything about a man; to know animals you will need more time.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about animals, day, need, time, man
The wise man who does not put his knowledge into practice is like a bee that gives no honey.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about knowledge, man
Do well the little things now; so shall great things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about things
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about meditation, books, moon, sky, truth
If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
An ungrateful son is a wart on his father's nose -- he leaves it, it's ugly, he removes it, it hurts.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
There are four things in this life of which we have more than we think: faults, debts, years and enemies.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about enemies, life, things
Who has not had a taste longs to do so, but for whom has tasted then the longing is a hundred times more.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about longing
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
There are three kinds of enemy: the enemy himself, the friends of your enemy, and the enemies of your friends.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about enemies
A coquettish woman is like a shadow -- as you chase her she runs away, and if you run away, she chases after you.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about shadow, woman
The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about memory, nothing
Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about paradise, thinking, good, good luck, word
