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The Gulistân

without strength [to execute it] is fraud and deception, and [application of] Strength without a design is ignorance and lunacy.

Discernment is necessary. Arrangement and intellect, then a realm; for realm and wealth with an ignorant man are weapons against himself.

man who eats and bestows is better than a devotee who fasts and hoards.

has renounced appetites for the sake of approbation by men, has fallen from licit into illicit appetites.

A devotee who sits in a corner not for God's sake is helpless; what can he see in a dark mirror? Little by little becomes much, and drop by drop will be a torrent; that is to say, he who has no power gathers small stones that he may at the proper opportunity annihilate the pride of his foe.

Drop upon drop collected will make a river; rivers upon rivers collected will make a sea.

Little and little together will become much; the granary is but grain upon grain.

is not meekly to overlook the folly of a common person, because thus both parties are injured; the dignity of the former being lessened, and the ignorance of the latter confirmed.