To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.
Saib TabriziWhat does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
Saib TabriziTo quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.
Saib TabriziFormerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.
Saib TabriziThe march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
Saib TabriziFlowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.
Saib TabriziThe life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
Saib TabriziIn this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.
Saib TabriziBecome placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.
Saib TabriziTen doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.
Saib TabriziThe weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.
Saib TabriziIf I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.
Saib TabriziPeace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.
Saib TabriziWhen a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.
Saib TabriziThe rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!
Saib TabriziThe touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
Saib TabriziThe roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
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