Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro, 2 | nature of tigers.~ Within a man of good disposition like
2 Intro, 3 | Such is the way; be a man and travel on.~ ~ The capital
3 Intro, 3 | travel on.~ ~ The capital of man's life is his abdomen.~
4 Intro, 3 | intelligent and perfect man~ Sets not his heart upon
5 Intro, 3 | dumb,~ Is better than a man who has no command over
6 Intro, 3 | palate.'~ ~ O intelligent man what is the tongue in the
7 Intro, 3 | treasure-door of a virtuous man.~ When the door is closed
8 Intro, 5 | say enough.~ By speech a man is better than a brute~
9 Intro, 5 | came to attack a fallen man.~ First deliberation, then
10 Intro, 5 | Unless one day a pious man compassionately~ Utters
11 1, Story1 | in his heart.~ ~ When a man is in despair his tongue
12 1, Story2 | passed away.~ Do good, O man, and consider life as a
13 1, Story2 | when a shout is raised, a man exists no more.~ ~
14 1, Story3 | better than a tall ignorant man, neither is~everything bigger
15 1, Story3 | much aggrieved.~ ~ While a man says not a word~ His fault
16 1, Story3 | padshahs.~ ~ When a pious man eats half a loaf of bread~
17 1, Story4 | place by the strength of a man~ But, if thou leavest it
18 1, Story4 | was arrived at to send one man as a spy and to wait~for
19 1, Story4 | good people and became a man.~ ~ When the vezier had
20 1, Story4 | Although he may grow up with a man.'~ ~ After two years had
21 1, Story4 | and said:~ ~ 'How can a man fabricate a good sword of
22 1, Story5 | what can I do to an envious man dissatisfied with himself?~
23 1, Story5 | himself?~ Die, O envious man, for this is a malady,~
24 1, Story6 | qualities.'~ ~ A tyrannic man cannot be a sultan~ As a
25 1, Story7 | of the boat; thus also a man~does not appreciate the
26 1, Story7 | befallen him.'~ ~ O thou full man, barley-bread pleases thee
27 1, Story10| the five fingers of a poor man is sin.~ Let him be afraid
28 1, Story10| called by the name of a man.~ ~ ~
29 1, Story13| disposition as~also to encourage a man by kindness and then again
30 1, Story15| Verily we stand in need of a man of sufficient~intelligence
31 1, Story16| good or ill luck.~ ~ Many a man slept hungry and no one
32 1, Story16| knew who he was.~ Many a man was at the point of death
33 1, Story16| very excellent and honest man but enemies sit in~ambush
34 1, Story17| adornment of piety. A great man who had conceived a very
35 1, Story17| intended~to wait upon the great man but the doorkeeper would
36 1, Story17| presence of the said~great man became aware of my case,
37 1, Story21| hit the~head of a pious man with a stone and that the
38 1, Story21| head with this~stone?' The man replied: 'I am the same
39 1, Story21| When thou seest an unworthy man in good luck~ Intelligent
40 1, Story25| neglecting their duties. A pious man who heard this~remarked
41 1, Story25| bestowed upon servants:~ ~ If a man comes two mornings to serve
42 1, Story26| people gratuitously. A pious man~passing near said:~ ~ 'Thou
43 1, Story26| of ashes-the same pious man happened again~to pass and
44 1, Story27| Story 27~ ~ A man had attained great excellence
45 1, Story27| thou not heard what the man said who suffered~molestation
46 1, Story28| to look for homage from a man who expects~benefits from
47 1, Story28| Today thou beholdest one man prosperous~ And another
48 1, Story28| fate overtakes them.~ If a man were to open the tombs of
49 1, Story28| distinguish a rich from a poor man.~ ~ The king, who was pleased
50 1, Story30| orders to kill an innocent man, the latter~said: 'O king,
51 1, Story30| me.' He asked: 'How?' The man replied: 'This~punishment
52 1, Story32| his great mendacity. The man~said: 'O lord of the surface
53 1, Story32| slave, be not offended.~ A man who has seen the world utters
54 1, Story33| further~inquiry. A pious man who took cognizance of this
55 1, Story34| He is not reputed a man by the wise~ Who contends
56 1, Story34| furious elephant~ But he is a man in reality~ Who when angry
57 1, Story34| ill-humoured fellow insulted a man~ Who patiently bore it
58 1, Story36| of his arm. The~wealthy man once asked his destitute
59 1, Story38| thereon.~ But if I see a blind man near a well~ It is a crime
60 1, Story39| have sown wool.' A pious man heard this, and~said:~ ~ '
61 1, Story40| that it was said:~ ~ When a man with a burning thirst reaches
62 2, Story1 | be a religious and good man~ And, if thou knowest not
63 2, Story2 | an unrighteous, ignorant man can offer to thee.'~ ~ I
64 2, Story4 | to the house of a pious man but, although he~sought
65 2, Story4 | much grieved. The pious~man, who knew this, threw the
66 2, Story8 | Story 8~ ~ ~ A great man was praised in an assembly
67 2, Story9 | which~is not deeper than a man's stature. What reason is
68 2, Story10| Story 10~ ~ ~ One asked the man who had lost his son:~ ~ ~ '
69 2, Story10| noble and intelligent old man!~ As thou hast smelt the
70 2, Story11| desire~ That the eloquent man may strike the ball of effect.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
71 2, Story12| Whilst the body of a fat man becomes lean~ A weak man
72 2, Story12| man becomes lean~ A weak man will be dead of exhaustion.~ ~ ~
73 2, Story13| Story 13~ ~ ~ I saw a holy man on the seashore who had
74 2, Story14| provision of the law.' The man continued: 'Thou hast spoken
75 2, Story15| padshah, meeting a holy man, asked him whether he did
76 2, Story16| Story 16~ ~ ~ A pious man saw in a dream a padshah
77 2, Story17| palm-grove of Mahmud, the rich man was on the point of death
78 2, Story17| on a dromedary.'~ ~ ~ A man wept all night near the
79 2, Story21| Without an intelligent man taking advice thereby.~
80 2, Story23| Story 23~ ~ ~ A man had by his sins forfeited
81 2, Story24| the sheikhs that a certain man had falsely~accused me of
82 2, Story26| the desert. A distracted man who had~accompanied us on
83 2, Story27| bulbul said to me?~ What man art thou to be ignorant
84 2, Story27| the frenzy of joy~ And a man does not feel it, he must
85 2, Story28| sufficient happiness.~ If a rich man pours gold into thy lap~
86 2, Story28| than the gift of a rich man.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
87 2, Story29| Story 29~ ~ ~ A man had a friend, who held the
88 2, Story29| for a long time; and, a man having asked him~for the
89 2, Story30| our love may increase.' A~man said to a devotee: 'Beautiful
90 2, Story31| Story 31~ ~ ~ A man, being tormented story by
91 2, Story31| a prison of wind, O wise man.~ No sage retains wind in
92 2, Story32| A bad wife in a good man's house~ Is his hell in
93 2, Story32| said: 'Art thou not~the man whom my father purchased
94 2, Story32| that a sheep had by a great man~ Been rescued from the jaws
95 2, Story34| Story 34~ ~ ~ A man, professing to be a hermit
96 2, Story34| him~ Like the dropsical man near the Euphrates.~ ~ ~
97 2, Story37| my table.~ To a pounded man simple bread is pounded
98 2, Story39| knowledge, like a blind man who~one night fell into
99 2, Story39| sleeper awaken a sleeper?~ A man must receive into his ears~
100 2, Story39| on a wall.'~ ~ ~ A pious man came to the door of a college
101 2, Story39| strives to save the drowning man.'~ ~ ~ ~ ~
102 2, Story40| Story 40~ ~ ~ A man was sleeping dead-drunk
103 2, Story43| Story 43~ ~ ~ A pious man saw an acrobat in great
104 2, Story43| base, whether thou be a man or woman.~ If thou art able,
105 2, Story43| elephant's front~ He is not a man who possessed no humanity.~
106 2, Story43| possessed no humanity.~ A man's nature is of earth.~ If
107 2, Story43| is not humble he is not a man.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
108 2, Story44| Story 44~ ~ ~ I asked a good man concerning the qualities
109 2, Story45| Story 45~ ~ ~ A kind old man in Baghdad~ Gave his daughter
110 2, Story45| cobbler.~ The cruel little man so bit her~ That blood flowed
111 2, Story46| to marry her to a blind man and it is~related that on
112 2, Story48| Ka'bah of submission.~ O man of God, follow the way of
113 3, Story2 | Egypt; whereon the rich man~looked with contempt upon
114 3, Story3 | sittest thou? A certain man in this town~possesses a
115 3, Story3 | s necessities~before any man.'~ ~ ~ It is better to patch
116 3, Story5 | Story 5~ ~ ~ A man often made vows of repentance
117 3, Story5 | will tear thee up.'~ ~ ~ A man brought up a wolf's whelp.~
118 3, Story7 | were opened and the strong man was found to be~dead whilst
119 3, Story7 | has become the nature of a man~ He takes it easy when a
120 3, Story9 | Story 9~ ~ ~ A sick man having been asked what his
121 3, Story10| of them who was a pious man~remarked: 'It is more easy
122 3, Story11| good reputation, no wise man would purchase~it because
123 3, Story11| hand of a sweet-tempered man~ Is better than confectionery
124 3, Story12| communicated to a great man of whose character he~entertained
125 3, Story12| disappointed because the man made a wry face and averred
126 3, Story12| and~ smiling face.~ The man of joyful countenance will
127 3, Story12| is related that the great man augmented his stipend a
128 3, Story13| dervish wanted something and a man told him that a certain~
129 3, Story13| acquaintance with him,~the man proposed to show him the
130 3, Story14| on the back?~ ~ ~ Such a man, a portion of whose eulogy
131 3, Story14| like Feridun~ A worthless man is to be considered of no
132 3, Story16| wine, quarrelled, slain a man and was to be executed in~
133 3, Story16| happen that when a weak man obtains power~ He arises
134 3, Story17| is the same to a thirsty man whether he has pearls or
135 3, Story17| shells in~ his mouth.~ When a man has no provisions and his
136 3, Story18| avail nothing to a hungry man.~ To a poor man burnt in
137 3, Story18| a hungry man.~ To a poor man burnt in the desert~ Boiled
138 3, Story19| sore heart and beheld a man without feet I offered thanks~
139 3, Story19| the sight of a satiated man~ Less valuable than a blade
140 3, Story20| moved for the night into the man's house and bestowed a dress
141 3, Story22| this affair such~and such a man is security.' He said: '
142 3, Story22| narrow eye of a wealthy man~ Will be filled either by
143 3, Story23| I heard about a wealthy man who was as well known for
144 3, Story23| Wah! If the dead man were to return~ Among his
145 3, Story23| thou, O virtuous and good man,~ What that mean fellow
146 3, Story25| Story 25~ ~ ~ A man whose hands and feet had
147 3, Story25| could not escape from a man without~hands and feet when
148 3, Story25| ties the legs of a running man.~ At the moment when the
149 3, Story26| cannot be said to resemble a man~ Except in his cloak, turban
150 3, Story26| except his blood.~ If a noble man becomes impoverished imagine
151 3, Story28| to put vasmah on a bald man's brow.~ ~ ~ If thou hast
152 3, Story28| Thou wilt never become a man, 0 raw fellow.~ Go and travel
153 3, Story28| the world.'~ ~ ~ A rich man is not a stranger in mountain,
154 3, Story28| The presence of a learned man is like pure gold~ Whose
155 3, Story28| suffer misery.~ ~ ~ 'When a man has fallen from his place
156 3, Story28| place.~ At night every rich man goes to an inn.~ The dervish
157 3, Story28| himself:~ ~ ~ 'A skilful man, when his luck does not
158 3, Story28| for one.'~ ~ ~ The young man's heart was irritated by
159 3, Story28| up the vision of a shrewd man.~ Greediness brings fowl
160 3, Story28| As soon as the young man's hand could reach the beard
161 3, Story28| proper to pacify the young man and to condone his passage~
162 3, Story28| save the vessel.' The young man, in the pride of bravery
163 3, Story28| hast given offence to~one man and afterwards done him
164 3, Story28| the boat off. The helpless man was amazed and~spent two
165 3, Story28| water. The fire of the young man's stomach having~blazed
166 3, Story28| weeping the next morning, a man asked: "What is the matter?~
167 3, Story28| do you know whether this man is not one of the band of~
168 3, Story28| youths approved of the old man's advice and became~suspicious
169 3, Story28| exiled enough.~ ~ ~ The poor man was speaking thus whilst
170 3, Story28| and sent a confidential~man to accompany him till he
171 4, Story1 | enmity passes not near a good man~ Except to consider him
172 4, Story4 | vanquish an irreligious man. He~replied: 'My learning
173 4, Story5 | the collar of a~learned man and insulting him, whereon
174 4, Story5 | this pass with an ignorant man.'~ ~ ~ Two wise men do not
175 4, Story5 | fellow.~ If an ignorant man in his rudeness speaks harshly~
176 4, Story5 | harshly~ An intelligent man tenderly reconciles his
177 4, Story5 | a mild with a headstrong man.~ If however both sides
178 4, Story5 | snap it.~ An ill-humoured man insulted someone.~ He bore
179 4, Story5 | bore it and replied: 'O man of happy issue,~ I am worse
180 4, Story7 | Words have a head, O shrewd man, and a tail.~ Do not insert
181 4, Story8 | to do so?'~ ~ ~ A knowing man will not utter every word
182 4, Story10| of his robe. As the poor man was~departing naked in the
183 4, Story10| gift by departure.~ ~ ~ A man was hoping for the gifts
184 4, Story11| confusion ensued. A pious man who~had the scene exclaimed:~ ~ ~ '
185 4, Story13| Story 13~ ~ ~ A man used to shout superfluous
186 4, Story13| go to another place.' The man agreed~and went away. Some
187 4, Story14| the Quran,~when a pious man passed near, and asked him
188 5, Story3 | 3~ ~ ~ I saw a religious man, who had fallen in love
189 5, Story9 | 9~ ~ ~ I knew a learned man who had fallen in love with
190 5, Story10| lost the time of union and man is ignorant~ Of the value
191 5, Story12| abstinence would cause the man to remain in~safety. He
192 5, Story12| evil speakers.'~ ~ ~ If a man escapes from his own bad
193 5, Story13| matter how much a~learned man may hate an ignorant man
194 5, Story13| man may hate an ignorant man the latter hates him equally.~ ~ ~
195 5, Story15| The beautiful wife of a man died but her mother, a decrepit
196 5, Story15| account of the dowry. The man saw no means of~escaping
197 5, Story16| it.~ ~ ~ Blessed is the man of happy destiny whose eye~
198 5, Story17| the~presence of a great man.~ ~ ~ In spite of thy presence
199 5, Story17| I beheld an illustrious man in a mountain region~ Who
200 5, Story18| Story 18~ ~ ~ A man in patched garments' accompanied
201 5, Story18| my intimacy with a young man and my friendship for him
202 5, Story18| sperm will ever become a man like him.~ ~ ~ All of a
203 5, Story20| palace?~ Say to the tall man: "Do not pluck the fruit",~
204 5, Story20| the world. Throw another man~headlong that I may take
205 6, Story1 | and he said that an old man, aged one~hundred and fifty
206 6, Story1 | is ruined.~ ~ ~ An aged man was lamenting in his last
207 6, Story2 | It is related that an old man, having married a girl,
208 6, Story2 | the companion of an old man who is ripe, educated,~experienced
209 6, Story2 | disappointed.~ ~ ~ The old man said: 'I continued in this
210 6, Story2 | woman is better than an old man.'~ ~ ~ When she perceived
211 6, Story2 | nether lip of a fasting man,~ She said: 'This fellow
212 6, Story2 | without satisfaction from a man~ Will raise many a quarrel
213 6, Story2 | and contention.~ An old man who is unable to rise from
214 6, Story2 | given in marriage to a young man who was violent, ill-humoured
215 6, Story2 | ornaments of women.~ Take a man; and his testicles are a
216 6, Story3 | Diarbekr, the guest of an old man, who possessed abundant~
217 6, Story4 | an acclivity. A weak~old man, who had likewise been following
218 6, Story5 | youth's hilarity in an old man~ For the water gone from
219 6, Story6 | For thou art a lion-like man, and I an old woman.'~ ~ ~ ~ ~
220 6, Story7 | wealthy but avaricious old man, having fallen sick, his~
221 6, Story7 | is at~a distance.' A holy man, who had heard this, afterwards
222 6, Story8 | Story 8~ ~ ~ An old man, having been asked why he
223 6, Story8 | being told that as he~was a man of property, he might take
224 6, Story8 | he said: 'I being an~old man and unwilling to associate
225 6, Story8 | am aged?'~ ~ ~ Let not a man of seventy years make love.~
226 6, Story9 | these days a decrepit aged man~ Took the fancy in his old
227 6, Story9 | contention arose between man and wife~ That the affair
228 7, Story1 | ineffectually, the learned man sent one~to his father with
229 7, Story2 | although a professional man may lose riches, it does
230 7, Story3 | prosper when he becomes a man.~ While a stick is green,
231 7, Story4 | religious, meek, good and wise man. He~spoke only when necessary
232 7, Story4 | teacher of angels. An old man, experienced in the world,
233 7, Story5 | The son of a pious man inherited great wealth left
234 7, Story6 | and threatened the learned man with punishment, telling
235 7, Story7 | his murid: 'The mind of man is so~much occupied with
236 7, Story8 | company with a venerable man~ Wherefore it became respected
237 7, Story9 | story~to an illustrious man who then told me that his
238 7, Story10| having shed the blood of a man,~had fled; whereon his father
239 7, Story10| If pregnant women, O man of intellect,~ Bring forth
240 7, Story11| child I asked an illustrious man about puberty. He~replied: '
241 7, Story11| puberty.'~ ~ ~ The form of man was attained by a drop of
242 7, Story11| reality not be called a man.~ Virility consists in liberality
243 7, Story11| vermilion or verdigris.~ If a man possesses not excellence
244 7, Story12| and contention.~I saw a man sitting in a camel litter
245 7, Story14| Story 14~ ~ ~ A little man with a pain in his eyes
246 7, Story14| of quadrupeds so that the man became blind and lodged
247 7, Story14| farrier,~saying: 'Had this man not been an ass, he would
248 7, Story14| entrusts an inexperienced man with an important business
249 7, Story14| A shrewd and enlightened man will not give~ Affairs of
250 7, Story15| Story 15~ ~ ~ An illustrious man had a worthy son who died.
251 7, Story16| Story 16~ ~ ~ A pious man happened to pass near a
252 7, Story16| much~violence towards the man because it is not meet that
253 7, Story17| account of robbers, a young man accompanied us as an~escort.
254 7, Story17| from the hands of the young man~and his bones trembling:~ ~ ~
255 7, Story17| Employ an experienced man in important affairs~ Who
256 7, Story17| battle is known by a tried man before the contest~ Like
257 7, Story17| legal question to a learned man.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
258 7, Story18| noticed the son of a rich man, sitting on the grave of
259 7, Story19| I asked an illustrious man for the reason of the tradition:~
260 7, Story19| will oppose thee.'~ ~ ~ Man attains angelic nature by
261 7, Story20| and Poverty~ ~ ~ I saw a man in the form but not with
262 7, Story20| poverty is an impossibility. A man who is rich is engaged~in
263 7, Story20| from people if thou art a man.~ Trust not the rosary of
264 7, Story20| but in reality a destitute man.~ ~ ~ If a wretch on account
265 7, Story20| silver of an~avaricious man will come up from the ground
266 7, Story20| into the~ground.~ ~ ~ One man gathers wealth with trouble
267 7, Story20| liberal and an avaricious man would~appear to be the same.
268 7, Story20| will surely stone thee. The man insulted me. I~spoke harshly
269 7, Story20| frame of mind.~ O wealthy man, since thy heart and hand
270 8, Maxim4 | Maxim 4~ ~ ~ A learned man who is not abstinent resembles
271 8, Maxim5 | business to an intelligent man~ Although it may not be
272 8, Admon3 | Reveal not thy secret to any man although he may be trustworthy,~
273 8, Admon6 | Wash thy hands, O wise man, from a friend~ Who is sitting
274 8, Admon7 | Speak not harshly to a man of gentle speech.~ Seek
275 8, Admon9 | marrow in every bone, a man in every coat.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
276 8, Admon10| applies a salve.~ A wise man uses neither severity to
277 8, Admon10| said to his father: 'O wise man,~ Give me for instruction
278 8, 1 | Maxim 12~ An ill-humoured man is captive in the hands
279 8, 1 | calamity an ill-natured man escapes into the sky~ The
280 8, 6 | perfection in the soul of man~ But do not ruin thyself
281 8, 7 | advice to a self-willed man stands himself in need~of
282 8, 12 | world,~whilst a contented man will be satisfied with one
283 8, 15 | nothing to a prayerless man~ Although his mouth may
284 8, 16 | egg and seeks food~ Whilst man's progeny has no knowledge,
285 8, 17 | by patience and a hasty man fails.~ ~ ~ I saw with my
286 8, 17 | the desert~ That a slow man overtook a fast one.~ A
287 8, 18 | is better for an ignorant man than silence, and if he
288 8, 18 | Disgrace is brought on a man by his tongue.~ A walnut,
289 8, 18 | sage observed: 'O ignorant man, what sayest thou?~ Fear
290 8, 18 | arrange thy words like a wise man~ Or remain sitting silent
291 8, 19 | Admonition 16~ ~ ~ Whenever a man disputes with one who is
292 8, 25 | in one day to know from a man's qualities~ What degree
293 8, 27 | the part of an intelligent man.~ ~ ~ Do not fight or try
294 8, 27 | strength with a furious man.~ Hide thy hands in thy
295 8, 28 | Caution 3~ ~ ~ A weak man trying to show his prowess
296 8, 28 | champions in a fight?~ A man with weak arms in his folly
297 8, 28 | throws~ His fist upon a man with iron claws.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
298 8, 30 | vie with an accomplished man he sets about slandering
299 8, 34 | quite easy to deprive a man of life.~ When he is slain
300 8, 35 | honoured, and if an ignorant man overcomes a sage in an oratorical~
301 8, 35 | crow~ Or that a virtuous man under the tyranny of vagabonds~
302 8, 36 | not astonished when a wise man ceases to speak in company
303 8, 38 | war-drum.~ ~ ~ A learned man among blockheads~ (So says
304 8, 40 | captive to lust like a weak man in the hands of~an artful
305 8, 41 | wealth with an ignorant man are weapons against~ himself.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
306 8, 42 | Maxim 41~ ~ ~ A liberal man who eats and bestows is
307 8, 45 | poor fellow~ Then a learned man who is not abstemious;~
308 8, 47 | hold of his tail like a man.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
309 8, 52 | Maxim 49~ ~ ~ An envious man is avaricious with the wealth
310 8, 52 | saw a crackbrained little man,~ Reviling a possessor of
311 8, 52 | wish evil to an envious man~ Because the ill-starred
312 8, 53 | chapters. A pious~unlettered man is like one who travels
313 8, 53 | being asked what a learned man without practice resembled,~
314 8, 54 | Maxim 51~ ~ ~ A man without virility is a woman
315 8, 56 | though the food of a great man may be delicious, the~broken
316 8, 59 | biased to thee.~ Every wise man who sits with Mejnun~ Speaks
317 8, 60 | thyself not with an ignorant man,~ For if thou be learned,
318 8, 62 | folly.~ ~ ~ An intelligent man will not give a reply~
319 8, 65 | noblest of beings is evidently man, and the meanest a dog,
320 8, 65 | better than an~ungrateful man.~ ~ ~ A dog never forgets
321 8, 68 | Happy is the time of the man~ Who spends it in adoring
322 8, 76 | gold remaining and the vile man dead.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
323 8, 77 | to the force of a strong man.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
324 8, 78 | Maxim 74~ ~ ~ When a wise man encounters obstacles, he
325 8, 1 | wicked well, O intelligent man,~ Because the good are in
326 8, Story | Story 2~ ~ ~ A great man having been asked why he
327 8, 2 | fighting and distressed.~ If a man pays not his tax of his
328 8, 2 | own accord~ The officer's man will take it by force.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
329 8, 4 | path of God~ Because an old man is unable to rise from his
330 8, 4 | the sexual tool of an old man, of sluggish desire,~ rises
331 8, 6 | excellent but avaricious man~ Without publishing his
332 8, 6 | defect~ But if a liberal man has a hundred faults~ His
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