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1 8, 53 | Maxim 50~ ~ ~ A disciple without
2 8, 54 | Maxim 51~ ~ ~ A man without virility
3 8, 55 | Maxim 52~ ~ ~ Regret will not leave
4 8, 56 | Maxim 53~ ~ ~ Although a sultan's
5 8, 57 | Maxim 54~ ~ ~ It is contrary to what
6 8, 59 | Maxim 55~ ~ ~ One of the requirements
7 8, 60 | Maxim 56~ ~ ~ Anyone associating
8 8, 61 | Maxim 57~ ~ ~ The meekness of the
9 8, 62 | Maxim 58~ ~ ~ Who interrupts the
10 8, 63 | Maxim 59~ ~ ~ I had a wound under
11 8, 64 | Maxim 60~ ~ ~ Mendacity resembles
12 8, 65 | Maxim 61~ ~ ~ The noblest of beings
13 8, 66 | Maxim 62~ ~ ~ Who panders to his
14 8, 67 | Maxim 63~ ~ ~ It is written in the
15 8, 68 | Maxim 64~ ~ ~ The will of the Inscrutable
16 8, 69 | Maxim 65~ ~ ~ When God draws the
17 8, 70 | Maxim 66~ ~ ~ Whoever does not betake
18 8, 71 | Maxim 67~ ~ ~ Fortunate men are admonished
19 8, 72 | Maxim 68~ ~ ~ How can he hear whose
20 8, 73 | Maxim 69~ ~ ~ The earth receives
21 8, 74 | Maxim 70~ ~ ~ A mendicant with a
22 8, 75 | Maxim 71~ ~ ~ The Most High sees
23 8, 76 | Maxim 72~ ~ ~ Gold is obtained from
24 8, 77 | Maxim 73~ ~ ~ Who has no mercy upon
25 8, 78 | Maxim 74~ ~ ~ When a wise man encounters
26 8, 79 | Maxim 75~ ~ ~ The gambler requires
27 8, 1 | Maxim 76~ ~ ~ The first sovereign
28 8, 1 | Maxim 77~ ~ ~ He may freely warn
29 8, 2 | Maxim 78~ ~ ~ The padshah is to remove
30 8, 3 | Maxim 79~ ~ ~ The teeth of all men
31 8, 4 | Maxim 80~ ~ ~ What can an old prostitute
32 8, 5 | Maxim 81~ ~ ~ A sage was asked: '
33 8, 6 | Maxim 82~ ~ ~ Two men died, bearing
34 Intro, 2 | Majesty the Shahanshah Atabek Aa'zm Muzaffaruddin~Abu Bekr
35 6, Story1 | life, so precious to him, abandons his body.~ ~ ~ I told him
36 7, Story20| cypresses to conceal themselves~abashed.~ ~ ~ Plunging the fist
37 Intro, 3 | capital of man's life is his abdomen.~ If it be gradually emptied
38 2, Story39| to accuse the ullemma of~aberration, and whilst searching for
39 1, Story19| world~ But the curse on him abides for ever.~ ~ ~
40 2, Story20| Far be he from this happy abode.~ No one ever saw him twice
41 7, Story20| arrogant, conceited and abominable fellows~intent upon accumulating
42 8, 37 | offspring of thorns and Abraham of Azer.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
43 1, Story24| well of them~when they were absent. He happened to do something
44 1, Story24| sweeten his mouth.~ ~ He was absolved of some accusations brought
45 1, Story41| of God~the most high, I abstained from distressing its population
46 3, Story4 | silence would be dangerous~ Or abstinance would bring on death.~ No
47 8, Maxim4 | A learned man who is not abstinent resembles a torchbearer
48 4, Story12| When the preacher Abu-l-Fares brays~ At his voice Istakhar-Fares
49 2, Story20| most illustrious Sheikh~Abulfaraj Ben Juzi to shun musical
50 2, Story2 | Who said this and wept abundantly:~ 'I ask not for the acceptance
51 2, Story32| quarrelsome,~disobedient, abusive in her tongue and embittering
52 2, Story12| pleasant to sleep under an acacia on the desert road~ But
53 2, Story36| waqfbread, answered: 'If it be accepted to insure~tranquillity of
54 6, Story5 | some time had elapsed, I accidentally met him again and I~learned
55 6, Story4 | evening at the foot of an acclivity. A weak~old man, who had
56 Intro, 1 | dignity~ No one is able to accomplish.~ ~ The showers of his boundless
57 5, Story5 | sweet-voiced that the~teacher, in accordance with human nature, conceived
58 5, Story4 | slain.'~ ~ ~ Although he accosted the youth graciously, asking
59 8, Maxim1 | comfort of life, not for the accumulation of~wealth. A sage, having
60 1, Story24| He was absolved of some accusations brought by the king against~
61 2, Story39| on the road of vanity, to accuse the ullemma of~aberration,
62 2, Story24| certain man had falsely~accused me of lasciviousness. He
63 5, Story12| from the bad suspicions of accusers.~ ~ ~ It is proper to sit
64 5, Story9 | said that it is easier to accustom the~heart to strife, than
65 5, Story18| have but I was not so much accustomed to that~money that separation
66 8, 79 | three sixes and only three aces turn up.~ ~ ~ The pasture
67 8, 11 | disappear~ Still no one will acknowledge his own ignorance.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
68 1, Story15| protection and gratefully acknowledged his beneficence, why~he
69 3, Story28| of~discriminating among acquaintances and gaining experience of
70 7, Story20| warriors in the battlefield of acquiescence and of~submission to the
71 3, Story2 | amirs were in Egypt, the one acquiring science, the~other accumulating
72 2, Story43| A pious man saw an acrobat in great dudgeon, full of
73 7, Story5 | from his companionship, acting~according to the words of
74 6, Story5 | Story 5~ ~ ~ The active, graceful, smiling, sweet-tongued
75 7, Story7 | opinion, meditation and acuteness.~ He arranged five fingers
76 Intro, 3 | mansion of my heart with adamantine tears. 1 I uttered the following~
77 2, Story7 | pious, rising in the night,~addicted to devotion and abstinence.
78 8, 69 | If at the resurrection he addresses us in anger~ What chance
79 5, Story14| enters sweetly smiling~ She adds more salt to my bleeding
80 7, Story6 | sack-leather and in others adim.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
81 1, Story24| with the princes of the adjacent country. The king became
82 1, Story19| Accordingly a~boy was sent to an adjoining village to bring some. Nushirvan
83 1, Story10| cotton from thy ears and administer justice to thy~ people~
84 1, Story15| is able to carry on the administration of the~government.' He replied: '
85 8, 63 | refrained because it is not~admissible to mention every member;
86 5, Story20| right and their arguments admitting of no~contradiction. Nevertheless:~ ~ ~
87 1, Story18| courtiers began heedlessly to admonish him, saying:~'Former kings
88 7, Story5 | his cold iron, I left off~admonishing him and turned away my face
89 2, Story20| Despite the abundant admonitions of the most illustrious
90 End | not been followed.~ ~ ~ To adorn oneself with one's own rag~
91 6, Story1 | gentleman is engaged in adorning his hall with paintings~
92 1, Story16| thief of the watchman, an adulterer~of an informer, and a harlot
93 1, Story23| What plea can the slave advance? The sentence is the master'
94 5, Story4 | the force of the friendly advances of his beloved, he~raised
95 2, Story42| step in the march is more advancing.~ Then why is thy honour
96 5, Story17| account of the following~adventure which occurred to me:~ ~ ~
97 2, Story39| from the instruction of~advisers, to travel on the road of
98 Intro, 3 | continual devotion and silence, advising him at the same~time, in
99 Intro, 3 | congenial friend and sincerely affectionate.~ ~ When thou fightest with
100 3, Story28| the turning world is to afflict~ Will be guided by the times
101 1, Story10| When the calamity of time afflicts one limb~ The other limbs
102 3, Story7 | the body becomes strong in affluence~ He will die when a hardship
103 Intro, 1 | completion of the revolving ages, Muhammad the~elect, upon
104 1, Story39| which the learned stand aghast.~ The luck of wealth consists
105 7, Story16| thou owner of Arslan and of Aghosh,~ Do not forget him who
106 1, Story39| when the tribe of Egyptian~agriculturists complained and stated that
107 8, 28 | against a strong one~only aids his foe to encompass his
108 3, Story8 | because~repletion keeps people ailing. The boy replied: 'O father,
109 3, Story28| by the times against his aim.~ A pigeon destined not
110 5, Story4 | because the~target which he aimed at was in a dangerous locality,
111 1, Story13| applicants so~ That, when it is ajar, it may not be shut again.~
112 1, Story39| and sages despised.~ If an alchemist has died in grief and misery,~
113 8, 50 | Hast thou heard that Alexander went into the darkness~
114 6, Story7 | But if thou askest for Alhamdu he will recite it a hundred
115 1, Story22| that~this pain cannot be allayed except by means of the bile
116 2, Story33| sufficient allowance to be allotted to him~so as to relieve
117 7, Story20| I said: 'Do not think it allowable to insult them for they
118 5, Story8 | with each other like two almond kernels in one skin. Suddenly
119 | almost
120 | along
121 2, Story30| Abu Harira, visit me on alternate days that our love may increase.'
122 Intro, 5 | low at the foot of Mount~Alvend.~ ~ Who lifts up his neck
123 8, Maxim3 | cherishing of religion, not for amassing~wealth.~ ~ ~ Who sold abstinence,
124 6, Story4 | twice in a race.~ A camel ambles gently night and day.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
125 7, Story11| consists in liberality and amiableness.~ Think not that it is only
126 1, Story39| fool discovered a treasure amidst ruins.'~ ~ ~
127 2, Story39| between a scholar and a monk~ amounts to?~ He replied: 'The former
128 Intro, 3 | I may compose for the amusement of those who look and for~
129 8, 78 | he leaps away and casts anchor~at the proper opportunity,
130 1, Story34| Harun-ur-Rashid went to his father and angrily~informed him that the son
131 5, Story21| that condition,~ He said in anguish from the waves:~ 'Leave
132 8, 14 | an~existence between two annihilations. Those who sell the religion
133 7, Story20| repel, and every time he~announced check to my king, I covered
134 3, Story13| it~forthwith. The dervish answering that he had no acquaintance
135 1, Story11| whose prayers met with answers, made his appearance,~and
136 1, Story1 | but another~vezier, the antagonist of the former, said: 'Men
137 1, Story32| been found in the Divan of Anvari.' The king ordered him to~
138 3, Story7 | confined in a closet and the aperture of it walled up with mud~
139 Intro, 1 | transgressions~ To offer apologies at the throne of God,~
140 2, Story20| company so that all~might apologize for the jokes they had cracked
141 1, Story17| the ground of obedience,~apologized for my boldness, and said:~ ~ '
142 3, Story4 | incumbent~upon him. The Apostle, salutation to him, replied: '
143 2, Story25| were a tribe in the world,~apparently distressed, but in reality
144 1, Story3 | quelled and the quarrel appeased; and it has been said~that
145 1, Story13| ought not to be opened to applicants so~ That, when it is ajar,
146 8, 41 | fraud and deception and~application of strength without a design
147 3, Story12| according to his opinion applications from respectable persons
148 7, Story14| treated~by him. The farrier applied to his eyes what he used
149 8, Admon10| who is a surgeon and also applies a salve.~ A wise man uses
150 3, Story12| the needful for which thou appliest, go with a fresh and~ smiling
151 8, Story | created joy and distress~ Apportions either excellence or luck.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
152 1, Story7 | thus also a man~does not appreciate the value of immunity from
153 5, Story20| advice of his friends and~appreciated their good opinion as well
154 2, Story20| friends who saw that my appreciation of his~merits was unusual
155 1, Story8 | my promises, wherefore I apprehended~that they, fearing calamities
156 7, Story5 | dissolute~behaviour-which I apprehended-realized. When I beheld him sewing
157 2, Story37| company, having thus been apprised of his famished condition,~
158 5, Story5 | conduct, although it may seem approvable to me, inform me thereof
159 3, Story28| dreadful water, in which even aquatic birds were not safe,~ The
160 Intro, 3 | nations, lord of the~kings of Arabia and Persia, the sultan of
161 5, Story21| affairs~ Well aware in the Arabian city of Baghdad.~ Tie thy
162 5, Story19| Story 19~ ~ ~ A king of the Arabs, having been informed of
163 3, Story28| one of the four hundred archers in his service missed the
164 1, Story27| time.~ No one had learnt archery from me~ Without at last
165 1, Story5 | Unfortunate men sometimes ardently desire~ The decline of prosperous
166 3, Story6 | narrated in the life of Ardeshir Babekan that he asked an
167 Intro, 3 | On the first of the month Ardibihesht Jellali~ The bulbuls were
168 Intro, 5 | I were to be led in the ardour~of conversation to speak
169 7, Story20| arrows of his~quiver in arguing.~ ~ ~ Have a care; do not
170 2, Story41| turbid from stones.~ The Arif who feels aggrieved is shallow
171 7, Story12| One year discord had arisen in a caravan among the walking
172 1, Story16| possessed some knowledge of~arithmetic, I might, through my influence,
173 8, 27 | Hide thy hands in thy arm-pits to avoid his finger-nails.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
174 8, 18 | improperly.~ Come. Either arrange thy words like a wise man~
175 1, Story14| will they display in battle array~ When their hands are empty
176 1, Story17| attended to as before and the arrears to be made~good. I expressed
177 7, Story20| are a handful of proud, arrogant, conceited and abominable
178 7, Story16| than thou.~ O thou owner of Arslan and of Aghosh,~ Do not forget
179 2, Story20| is tearing up the vital artery~ with his fiddle-bow.~ His
180 8, 40 | weak man in the hands of~an artful woman.~ ~ ~ Bid farewell
181 8, 3 | Maxim 13~ ~ ~ When all the artifices of an enemy have failed
182 3, Story28| soul.~ ~ ~ Fifthly, the artisan, who gains a sufficient
183 Intro, 3 | picture-gallery or design of the Arzank,~ Hopes are entertained
184 3, Story28| be~placed on the dome of Asad, promising to bestow the
185 8, 37 | capacity is thrown away. Ashes are of high origin because
186 1, Story26| soft bed to a hot mound of ashes-the same pious man happened
187 8, 49 | Admonition 20~ ~ ~ O thou asker of food, sit for thou wilt
188 6, Story7 | like an ass,~ But if thou askest for Alhamdu he will recite
189 5, Story4 | advised him to abandon his aspiration to a fancy impossible~of
190 7, Story20| would be full of them as of ass-shells.~ ~ ~ 'Those near to the
191 5, Story20| manifested immense~wrath, assailed the qazi with disrespectful
192 1, Story1 | is like a~vanquished cat assailing a dog.~ ~ In time of need,
193 7, Story20| been helpless against the assaults of beggars and they would
194 1, Story6 | oppression and scattered, now assembled around them and~supported
195 4, Story3 | he was allowed to sit~in assemblies of learned men but he refrained
196 3, Story14| struck~my head back from assenting and replied:~ ~ ~ A lion
197 1, Story4 | the presence of the king, asserting that the instructions~of
198 5, Story19| may bear witness to the assertion: This is he for~whose sake
199 4, Story12| voices is surely the voice of asses- appears to have been applicable~
200 1, Story17| compliments~and desired to assign me a high seat but I humbly
201 3, Story28| slaves and~quick-handed assistants, alights every day in another
202 8, Maxim7 | dervishes.~ ~ ~ If thou associatest and art friendly with a
203 3, Story7 | contrary would have been~astonishing because one of them having
204 7, Story20| laughing,~ The finger of astonishment of a world~ On the teeth;
205 8, 72 | guidest -no one can lead astray.~ Whom thou castest off
206 4, Story11| Story 11~ ~ ~ An astrologer, having entered his own
207 7, Story17| elephant-body,~ His joints will snap asunder for fear in contact with
208 7, Story17| bow-string. Moreover the athletes of the face of the earth
209 Intro, 5 | remain for years,~ When every atom of our dust is dispersed.~
210 5, Story7 | comest in peace thou art attacking.~ ~ ~ If my sweetheart associates
211 1, Story6 | subjects and sit safe from attacks of foes~ Because his subjects
212 1, Story27| blamed the youth for having attempted to~cope with his instructor
213 Intro, 5 | backwardness in diligent attendance at the royal~court resemble
214 3, Story29| his custom, paid so many~attentions to the padshah, the like
215 7, Story20| their minds being more attentive and not distracted or~scattered.
216 5, Story19| excelled her in beauty and attractions. Mejnun,~who shrewdly understood
217 3, Story28| better than much wealth. An attractive face is also said to be
218 1, Story16| behind his back and would attribute the struggle he underwent~
219 2, Story20| of his~merits was unusual attributed it to the levity of my intellect
220 8, Admon10| sharp-toothed wolf may become audacious.'~ ~ ~ ~ ~
221 2, Story20| lost his father.~ ~ ~ The audience now stopped their ears with
222 Intro, 2 | of his life, and~with an augmentation of his reward for his good
223 2, Story9 | Enhancing thy value and augmenting our desire.~ ~ ~ I behold
224 End | throughout the work the custom of authors to insert verses~from ancient
225 Intro, 3 | into the inconstancy of autumn.~ ~ Of what use will be
226 Intro, 3 | touched by the tyranny of autumnal~blasts and the delight of
227 5, Story20| repent. But their faith availed them~not after they had
228 3, Story28| confident that he will not avenge himself for that one offence,~
229 1, Story3 | father~glancing on him with aversion and contempt but he had
230 2, Story19| Because comforting the poor averts evil from thyself.~ When
231 7, Story20| fearful adventures~and not avoiding their consequences, he fears
232 2, Story39| ask:~ 'How can a sleeper awaken a sleeper?~ A man must receive
233 5, Story20| realm of existence. The king~awakened him gently and said: 'Get
234 5, Story16| countenance.~ One drunk of wine awakens at midnight,~ One drunk
235 5, Story17| regent?~ ~ ~ He considered awhile and then said: 'Most of
236 4, Story13| mud from gravel with an axe~ As thy discordant shouting
237 Intro, 2 | the lord of the world, the axis of the revolving~circle
238 1, Story32| seen him at Bosrah on the Azhah~festival, then how can he
239 5, Story4 | thou knowest not the A, B, C.~ ~ ~ The prince said: '
240 3, Story6 | in the life of Ardeshir Babekan that he asked an Arab~physician
241 2, Story37| a table of food~ Like a bachelor at the door of a bath of
242 8, Admon5 | like fire,~ The ill-starred back-biter being the wood-carrier.~
243 Intro, 5 | SOLITUDE~ ~ My negligence and backwardness in diligent attendance at
244 8, 24 | all stones were rubies of Badakhshan,~ The price of rubies and
245 3, Story28| useless to put vasmah on a bald man's brow.~ ~ ~ If thou
246 7, Story17| One year I travelled from Balkh with Damascenes and the
247 5, Story13| profligates~ When one of them, a Balkhi beauty, said:~ 'If thou
248 2, Story27| plain~ The branches of the ban-tree bend, not hard rocks.~ ~ ~
249 3, Story28| of clothes meets with no bardship or trouble~ But if the government
250 2, Story17| Story 17~ ~ ~ A bareheaded and barefooted pedestrian
251 4, Story9 | hesitating in the conclusion of a bargain for the purchase~of a house
252 8, 30 | who possess some,~without barking like the curs of the bazar
253 1, Story7 | him.'~ ~ O thou full man, barley-bread pleases thee not.~ She is
254 1, Story18| takest thou not from each a barley-corn of silver~ That thou mayest
255 Intro, 5 | glass beads are not worth a~barleycorn in the bazar of jewellers,
256 7, Story20| life and a cunning~demon bars the enjoyment of paradise.~ ~ ~ '
257 8, 62 | though his words may be based on truth,~ His claim to
258 Intro, 4 | her eyes from the feet of bashfulness to appear~in the assembly
259 Intro, 3 | skirt~collected roses, sweet basil, hyacinths and fragrant
260 1, Story23| lord, give freedom to this bastard as an oblation to the tomb
261 5, Story10| went away:~ ~ ~ 'If the bat desires not union with the
262 1, Story5 | dignity.~ If in daytime, bat-eyed persons do not see~ Is it
263 1, Story4 | experienced men, who had~fought in battles, were despatched to keep
264 2, Story3 | Story 3~ ~ I saw A'bd-u-Qader Gaillani in the sanctuary
265 1, Story30| account of the anger~thou bearest towards me.' He asked: '
266 8, 6 | Maxim 82~ ~ ~ Two men died, bearing away their grief One had
267 1, Story16| fear of no one.~ Washermen beat only impure garments against
268 7, Story20| opinion,~ The gatekeeper has beautifully said: 'No one is in the
269 3, Story28| possessed a~ring with a costly beazle, once went out by way of
270 5, Story19| It is useless to speak of bees to one~ Who never in his
271 3, Story23| a sudden a contrary wind befell~the ship, as it is said:~ ~ ~
272 2, Story2 | obedience. I have come to beg and not to trade. Deal with
273 7, Story4 | troublesome to the people, of a~beggarly nature and without self-restraint,
274 7, Story3 | in a sedate manner and to behave in a laudable way but more~
275 2, Story24| conduct.'~ ~ ~ Be thou well behaved that a maligner~ May not
276 7, Story5 | consequences of his dissolute~behaviour-which I apprehended-realized.
277 3, Story21| refused to comply with the behest of the king, began~to argue
278 5, Story20| them~not after they had beholden our vengeance.~ ~ ~ 'What
279 2, Story49| is written on the tomb of Behram Gur:~ 'A liberal hand is
280 1, Story13| He does not know~that the Beit-ulmal is intended to offer a morsel
281 8, 51 | Moses and the former is the bejewelled beard of Pharaoh.~Nevertheless
282 4, Story6 | and sweet~ Is worthy of belief and of approbation.~ When
283 4, Story4 | sheikhs, which he neither believes in nor listens to. Then
284 2, Story34| heart-ravishing ear-tip~ A girl is a belle without turquoise-ring or
285 Intro, 2 | angel,~ Without an army like bellicose lions.~ Thus it happened
286 5, Story4 | speakest thou not to me? I also belong to~the circle of dervishes;
287 1, Story19| taken by force~ The people belonging to his army will put a thousand~
288 3, Story26| Examine all his property and belongings of his estate~ Thou wilt
289 3, Story14| Baghdad~ With water flowing beneath and men on the back?~ ~ ~
290 1, Story24| become~unthankful towards his benefactor in consequence of a slight
291 7, Story20| Take any notice of the benes of Yaghma?~ ~ ~ Who has
292 1, Story25| the third certainly look benevolently on him.~ Sincere worshippers
293 2, Story27| reached the palm-grove of the Beni Hallal, a black boy of~the
294 2, Story40| anchorite.~ Look upon him with benignity.~ If I am ignoble in my
295 2, Story19| merchants wept and lamented, beseeching God~and the prophet to intercede
296 8, 51 | dervish is a~sweetheart besmeared with earth. The latter is
297 2, Story26| beasts in the desert so I bethought myself that it would~not
298 Intro, 3 | proper time.~ Two things betoken levity of intellect: to
299 5, Story16| it. In short, I took the beverage from her~beautiful hands,
300 8, 59 | If thou knowest him to be biased to thee.~ Every wise man
301 2, Story20| hands.~ If the muhtasib were bibbing wine, he would excuse a
302 5, Story4 | One had lost his heart and bidden farewell to his life because
303 7, Story17| strength of his fist every big tree he saw, exclaiming,~
304 1, Story3 | man, neither is~everything bigger in stature higher in price.
305 1, Story22| allayed except by means of the bile of a person~endued with
306 Intro, 2 | which are hawked about~like bills of exchange, cannot be ascribed
307 8, Admon11| hermit in the country of Bilqan~ And requested him to purge
308 5, Story17| smiled and asked~for my birthplace. I replied: 'The soil of
309 2, Story45| The cruel little man so bit her~ That blood flowed from
310 5, Story20| his hand to his teeth and bite it.'~ ~ ~ I heard that at
311 3, Story19| man~ Less valuable than a blade of fresh grass on the table~
312 4, Story4 | is it to me to hear him blaspheming?'~ ~ ~ To him of whom thou
313 Intro, 3 | the tyranny of autumnal~blasts and the delight of whose
314 8, 36 | of rotten~garlic.~ ~ ~ A blatant ignoramus proudly lifted
315 3, Story28| young man's stomach having~blazed into flames and deprived
316 5, Story20| of stratagem but~when it blazes up high it may destroy a
317 3, Story26| A calf, a body which is bleating.~ ~ ~ This animal cannot
318 8, Admon10| together are best~ Like a bleeder who is a surgeon and also
319 5, Story14| She adds more salt to my bleeding wound.~ How would it be
320 2, Story1 | do not see any external blemishes on him and do not know~of
321 8, 45 | former loses the way by his blindness~ While the latter falls
322 8, 38 | A learned man among blockheads~ (So says the parable of
323 2, Story28| A flower is sometimes blooming and sometimes withering.~
324 Intro, 1 | adorned their heads with blossoms at the approach of the season
325 5, Story20| negro.~ ~ ~ Nothing can blot out my remembrance of thee.~
326 5, Story17| enticed thee with syntax~ It blotted out the form of intellect
327 8, 55 | with a friend who dons the blue garb,~ Or bid farewell to
328 8, 3 | The teeth of all men are blunted by sourness, but those of
329 3, Story28| caravan will aid me.' These boastful~words comforted the heart
330 7, Story17| tree he saw, exclaiming,~boastingly:~ ~ ~ Where is the elephant
331 1, Story16| the door of prosperity,~ Boasts of amity and calls himself
332 2, Story20| his mouth~ The hair on the bodies of the people stood on end.~
333 1, Story16| prosperity,~ Will choose bodily comfort for himself,~ Abandoning
334 1, Story4 | fountain may be stopped with a bodkin~ But, when it is full, it
335 1, Story33| thy father.~ In order to boil the pot of well-wishers~
336 3, Story22| because the African sea is boisterous. O Sa'di, I have one journey~
337 4, Story12| jessamine.~ Say. Where is the bold and quick enemy~ To make
338 1, Story17| obedience,~apologized for my boldness, and said:~ ~ 'Since the
339 3, Story28| melancholy lay~ To the ear of the boon companions who quaff the
340 8, 1 | embroiderers~ To write around the borders of his tent:~ 'Keep the
341 7, Story3 | utters only one jest~ It is borne from country to country.~ ~ ~ '
342 7, Story20| Who has nothing except borrowed eloquence to show,~ Practise
343 1, Story34| degree as~to exceed the bounds of vengeance because in
344 Intro, 5 | then the wall.~ ~ I know bouquet-binding but not in the garden. I
345 2, Story48| Story 48~ ~ ~ I saw bouquets of fresh roses~ Tied upon
346 7, Story17| were not able to span his~bow-string. Moreover the athletes of
347 5, Story16| carrying in her hand a bowl of snow-water, into which
348 2, Story27| sings praises~ But every bramble is a tongue, extolling him.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
349 5, Story18| of his face.~ Thorns and brambles are growing on his tomb.~ ~ ~
350 8, 60 | drinking wine.~ ~ ~ Thou hast branded thyself with the mark of
351 1, Story27| have uprooted a mountain of brass from its place~but the master,
352 1, Story14| his~troops, they cannot bravely risk their lives for him.'~ ~
353 4, Story12| the preacher Abu-l-Fares brays~ At his voice Istakhar-Fares
354 Intro, 5 | strikes his claws in vain on a brazen falcon.~ A cat is a lion
355 3, Story23| up the crumbs after his bread-dinner.~ ~ ~ I heard that he was
356 1, Story23| clods~ Thou ignorantly breakest thy own head.~ When thou
357 7, Story4 | their time in~play, and breaking on the heads of each other
358 5, Story4 | of love that he could not breathe:~ ~ ~ If thou recitest the
359 2, Story44| concerning the qualities of the brethren of~purity. He replied: '
360 3, Story15| I noticed a~gatherer of briars, who had accumulated a hillock
361 8, 3 | The qazi whom thou bribest with five cucumbers~ Will
362 3, Story23| with a silver and a gold brick.~ ~ ~ It is narrated that
363 2, Story45| her thus~ And going to the bridegroom asked him:~ 'O mean wretch,
364 3, Story14| long will he be like the bridge of Baghdad~ With water flowing
365 1, Story24| danger, forthwith wrote a brief and suitable~answer on the
366 Intro, 3 | harmonious.~ ~ The former full of bright-coloured tulips,~ The latter full
367 5, Story8 | of a messenger~should be brightened by thy beauty and I deprived
368 7, Story20| contemplate a youth whose brightness excels that of the shining~
369 2, Story9 | righteous one are~between brilliancy and obscurity.~ ~ ~ Thou
370 8, 72 | dark night~ Shines like the brilliant day.~ This felicity is not
371 3, Story22| I shall carry Persian brimstone to China~because I heard
372 1, Story13| Crowding at the bank of briny water.~ Wherever a sweet
373 8, 23 | Not everyone who is brisk in dispute is correct in
374 3, Story28| put vasmah on a bald man's brow.~ ~ ~ If thou hast two hundred
375 2, Story11| was~sorry for instructing brutes and holding forth a mirror
376 2, Story20| solitude and retirement, the budding of my youth overcame me,
377 Intro, 3 | shall not draw breath, nor budge one step,~unless he converses
378 1, Story40| be thrown from the lofty~building into a ditch. One of the
379 Intro, 3 | road.~ Whoever had come had built a new edifice.~ He departed
380 7, Story20| is it that they are like bulky clouds and~rain not, like
381 Intro, 3 | whilst, from its vines, bunches like the Pleiads were suspended.~ ~
382 7, Story18| Will also arrive lightly burdened at the gate of death~ Whilst
383 5, Story20| take the example.' The king burst out laughing,~pardoned his
384 8, Admon11| earth, O lawyer,~ Or else, bury under the earth all thy
385 2, Story29| greatness and in the turmoil of busines~ They do not like to be
386 3, Story10| endure the expostulations of butchers.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
387 1, Story32| stranger brings before thee buttermilk~ Two measures of it will
388 8, 26 | forehead broken~ If thou buttest it in play against a ram.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
389 2, Story43| matter with this fellow?'~A bystander said: 'Someone has insulted
390 5, Story4 | thou knowest not the A, B, C.~ ~ ~ The prince said: '
391 3, Story28| the pillar and take the cable of the boat that we may~
392 5, Story13| having been imprisoned in a cage with a crow, was vexed by~
393 3, Story26| like an ass among men,~ A calf, a body which is bleating.~ ~ ~
394 1, Story11| appearance,~and Hejaj Yusuf, calling him, said: 'Utter a good
395 Intro, 3 | been my~companion in the camel-litter of misery and my comrade
396 8, 17 | wind, fell back~ Whilst the camel-man continued slowly his progress.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
397 2, Story17| thus spend my life.'~ ~ ~ A camel-rider shouted to him: 'O dervish,
398 5, Story10| from thy sight.~ Today thou camest to make peace with him~
399 1, Story13| fool who burns by day a camphor-light~ Will soon not have an oil-lamp
400 7, Story6 | contain silver and gold.~ Canopus is shining upon the whole
401 Intro, 1 | Whose hand and tongue is capable~ To fulfil the obligations
402 3, Story28| fortune. His throat being capacious and his~hands unable to
403 7, Story20| the steed of eloquence to caper in the plain of reproach
404 6, Story2 | strain, thinking that I had~captivated her heart and that it had
405 2, Story28| have some the love of it captivates me.~ There is no greater
406 8, 34 | is~preferable to respite captives because the option of killing
407 3, Story28| comforted the heart of the caravan-people, who became glad of~his
408 1, Story4 | and closed the passage of caravans, the inhabitants of~the
409 5, Story1 | throws away~ Will not be cared for by anyone in the household.~ ~ ~
410 2, Story42| thine in the heavens.~ Who carelessly lifts up his neck~ Throws
411 1, Story13| world,~ I take it if thou carest not, we also do not care.'~ ~
412 3, Story6 | than that, thou wilt be the~carrier of it.'~ ~ ~ Eating is for
413 3, Story28| one night and day he~was cast on the bank, with some life
414 8, 72 | lead astray.~ Whom thou castest off no one can guide.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
415 8, 70 | rectitude in~consequence of the castigations of this world will fall
416 2, Story47| Story 47~ ~ ~ A padshah was casting a glanced of contempt upon
417 5, Story20| throw thee headlong from the castle that~others may take an
418 Intro, 5 | falcon.~ A cat is a lion in catching mice~ But a mouse in combat
419 8, Maxim10| perfectly correct.~ ~ ~ Be cautious of what a foe tells thee
420 5, Story16| immortality gushing from a dark~cavern, carrying in her hand a
421 1, Story18| it for a useful purpose. Cease this movement because~calamities
422 1, Story28| between king and slave has ceased~ When the decree of fate
423 2, Story1 | a hermit whom others had censured in their conversation, he~
424 Intro, 5 | assembly of pious men~and the centre of profound scholars? If
425 Intro, 4 | former they are free from ceremony.~ ~ The back of the bent
426 Intro, 1 | enemies?~ ~ He told the chamberlain of the morning breeze to
427 5, Story13| this? What~base destiny and chameleonlike times? It was befitting
428 8, 28 | the shade~ To go against champions in a fight?~ A man with
429 8, 53 | good character, not for chanting written chapters. A pious~
430 2, Story27| Whatever thou beholdest chants his praises.~ He knows this
431 3, Story26| replied: 'It is like ugly characters scrawled with~gold-water.'~ ~ ~
432 7, Story1 | a stupid son gave him in charge of a scholar to~instruct
433 2, Story17| revived.~ ~ ~ Many a fleet charger had fallen dead~ While a
434 7, Story16| had a slave~and was just chastising him after having tied his
435 8, 9 | a flatterer~ Who expects cheaply to derive profit from thee.~
436 7, Story20| every time he~announced check to my king, I covered him
437 2, Story34| red roses were like the cheeks of belles,~ Its hyacinths
438 Intro, 1 | companions who had~desired to cheer him up: 'What beautiful
439 6, Story5 | Now we are satisfied with cheese Eke a leopard.~ ~ ~ An old
440 8, 65 | hundred times.~ But if thou cherishest a base fellow a lifetime,~
441 5, Story1 | will appear an angel, a cherub in his sigh].~ ~ ~ ~ ~
442 2, Story9 | with Allah during which no cherubim nor~inspired prophet is
443 7, Story12| ivory travels across the chess-board and~becomes a farzin, and
444 5, Story10| picking up the pieces of the chess-game of~friendship, recited:~ ~ ~ '
445 5, Story20| friend and leave~ The foe to chew the back of his own hand
446 2, Story45| what teeth are these?~ Chewest thou thus her lips? They
447 2, Story7 | I remember, being in my childhood pious, rising in the night,~
448 6, Story5 | obtained children I left~off childishness.'~ ~ ~ Where is youth when
449 7, Story20| and I caught hold of his~chin-case.~ ~ ~ He falling upon me
450 6, Story1 | the way of my breath is choked.~ Alas, that from the variegated
451 1, Story16| face of prosperity,~ Will choose bodily comfort for himself,~
452 3, Story28| performing on the double chord?~ ~ ~ How pleasant is the
453 1, Story6 | dispersed in the world and chose exile on account of~the
454 5, Story20| according to the saying of chroniclers:~ ~ ~ That straight tall
455 2, Story11| and the last~turn of the circulating cup made such an impression
456 3, Story28| strange things, recreation in cities, associating with~friends,
457 Intro, 3 | intelligent men consider silence civil,~ It is better for thee
458 2, Story20| sitting with us, he would clap his hands.~ If the muhtasib
459 2, Story35| wishing to~do good to this class of worshippers of God, this
460 1, Story16| account of the conscience is clear?'~ ~ Be not extravagant
461 Intro, 1 | OF ALLAH THE MERCIFUL THE CLEMENT~ ~ Laudation to the God
462 3, Story22| Alexandria~because it has a good climate', and correcting himself
463 1, Story3 | were to conquer the seven climates~ He would still in the same
464 3, Story28| the boat on his arm, he~climbed to the top of the pillar,
465 3, Story26| resemble a man~ Except in his cloak, turban and outward adornment.~
466 7, Story20| whose head is touched by a clod of earth~ Leaps for joy,
467 1, Story23| fightest with a thrower of clods~ Thou ignorantly breakest
468 2, Story28| a king was drawing to a close and he had no successor.~
469 5, Story10| thou~knowest, I was on the closest terms of intimacy with a
470 3, Story23| wealth, tearing up their old cloths and~cutting new ones of
471 7, Story17| attack us. One of them had a club in his hand whilst~the other
472 1, Story7 | to the stern of which he clung with both his hands. Then
473 7, Story20| need to throw stones on clusters upon trees.~ ~ ~ Mostly
474 1, Story4 | fire and to leave burning coals~or to kill a viper and leave
475 6, Story9 | impossible to sew~ A tight coarse robe except with a needle
476 2, Story45| Gave his daughter to a cobbler.~ The cruel little man so
477 1, Story33| inquiry. A pious man who took cognizance of this affair said:~ ~ '
478 3, Story28| thy broken~condition. Such coincidences occur seldom and rare events
479 7, Story20| for the morrow.~ The ant collects in summer a subsistence~
480 2, Story39| man came to the door of a college from a monastery.~ He broke
481 8, Maxim6 | the effect of one dose of colocynth.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
482 3, Story11| in~disgrace.'~ ~ ~ To eat coloquinth from the hand of a sweet-tempered
483 Intro, 5 | catching mice~ But a mouse in combat with a tiger.~ ~ But, trusting
484 8, 45 | learning is a weapon for combating Satan and,~when the possessor
485 3, Story28| bravery.~ When the little ants combine together~ They tear the
486 3, Story28| me.' These boastful~words comforted the heart of the caravan-people,
487 2, Story19| day of prosperity~ Because comforting the poor averts evil from
488 2, Story5 | each other's troubles and comforts. I desired to accompany
489 7, Story16| not forget him who is thy commander.~ ~ ~ There is a tradition
490 2, Story2 | to command; whatever thou commandest I obey.~ ~ I saw a mendicant
491 2, Story26| replied: 'I saw bulbuls commencing to~lament on the trees,
492 3, Story28| striving to acquire is not commendable.~ ~ ~ If a diver fears the
493 7, Story3 | whatever they say or do is~commented on by everybody, the utterances
494 3, Story28| pious men are~inclined to commingle because it has been said
495 End | bitter medicine of advice is commingled with~the honey of wit, in
496 7, Story20| a~dervish had been seen committing a wicked act with a youth,
497 4, Story8 | does not think proper to communicate to the like of us.' He~answered: '
498 3, Story12| slender~income. This fact he communicated to a great man of whose
499 End | an opportunity~ Near the Compassionate one I should say: 'O Lord,~
500 Intro, 5 | Unless one day a pious man compassionately~ Utters a prayer for the
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