‘Galenus’ saw a fool hanging on with his hands to the collar of a learned man and insulting him, whereon he said: ‘If he were learned he would not have come to this pass with an ignorant man.’ Two wise men do not contend and quarrel Nor does a scholar fight with a contemptible fellow. If […]
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Once there was a king with a son who loved martial exercises. One night, the king had a dream that warned him his son would be killed by a lion. Fearing the dream might come true, he built a beautiful palace for his son, decorating its walls with life-sized pictures of various animals, including a lion. When the young prince saw the lion painting, his frustration at being confined boiled over. Standing near the image, he exclaimed, “Oh, you most detestable of animals! Because of a mere dream my father had, I am shut up in this palace as if I were a girl. What can I do to you now?” With these words, he reached out to a thorn tree, intending to cut a stick to beat the lion. But a sharp prickle pierced his finger, causing severe pain and inflammation. The young prince fainted and soon developed a violent fever, from which he died not many days late
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One day there was a hot discussion in the court of King Nosherwan (Persian king). Different people provided different arguments to prove their positions. But one lord of the tribe was silent at Court. The king asked him, “why are you silent and not participating in this discussion?” The lord replied, “Advisors are like doctors; doctors give medicine only to
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‘Nasrudin’ was taking an evening stroll when he stumbled over a man lying on the grass, drunk. Rolling him over, he recognized the drunkard to be none other than the judge — a man famous for passing stiff sentences for moral offences. Seeing that the judge was unconscious, ‘Nasrudin‘ removed his ornate slippers and coat
The ‘poryotkes’, that is the ancient sages, held thus: “In men’s mind there is thought, sometimes a god holds a throne (in it), sometimes a demon holds up the way. In thought there is speech, sometimes a god holds a throne (in it), sometimes a demon holds up the way. In speech there is deed,
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The rose is gone from the garden, what can I do with the thorns and leaves? The Shah is not in the city, What shall I do with his court? The attractions are the cage: beauty and goodness the parrot. What the parrot has flown, What can I do with the cage? [Hakim Jami, Baharistan]
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This proverb has it foundation in the following: story. The poet ‘Jamee’ during the travel met with a ‘Mulla‘ who was very.ignorant, but greatly revered by his hearers, who .were still .more as a stranger. ‘Jamee’ exposed his errors, and the ‘Mulla’ beat him who was unprotected stranger. Being unable to revenge himself by force he came
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Zahhak (the prince replied) was a king who had growing from each of his shoulders a serpent requiring for its food every day the brain of a freshly slain youth. I have heard also that in his time there lived a woman named Hanbuiy. One day the lot of ill-fortune fell upon her son, her husband and
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Once there was a robber whose movements were swifter then thought. He was speedier in his night- travels than imagination itself. If he wished, he could penetrate into the stronghold of Saturn and snatch the veil from the face of Venus. He could pass through any window as easily as a moonbeam or sunshine slip
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