Saadí citáty
Saadí
Datum narození: 1210
Datum úmrtí: 1291
Šejch Abú Abdilláh Mušarifuddín ben Muslih Širází, známý jako Sa'dí, persky سعدی, byl perský středověký básník, mistr didaktické poezie.
Citáty Saadí
„I never lamented about the vicissitudes of time or complained of the turns of fortune except on the occasion when I was barefooted and unable to procure slippers [shoes]. But when I entered the great mosque of Kufah with a sore heart and beheld a man without feet I offered thanks to the bounty of God, consoled myself for my want of shoes and recited:
'A roast fowl is to the sight of a satiated man
Less valuable than a blade of fresh grass on the table
And to him who has no means nor power
A burnt turnip is a roasted fowl.“
— Saadi, kniha Gulistan of Sa'di
Gulistan (1258), Chapter 3, story 19. Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold. ( Persian version https://ganjoor.net/saadi/golestan/gbab3/sh18/)
„Translation:
Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.“
— Saadi, kniha Gulistan of Sa'di
Gulistan (1258), Alternative translation:
The children of Adam are limbs of a whole
Having been created of one essence.
When the calamity of time afflicts one limb
The other limbs cannot remain at rest.
If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others
You are not worthy to be called by the name of "man".
Chapter 1, story 10
„Whatever is produced in haste goes easily to waste.“
— Saadi, kniha Gulistan of Sa'di
Gulistan (1258), Chapter 8, story 36
„When gnats act in concert they will bring
down an elephant: when ants set to work,
and move in a body, they can strip a fierce
lion of its hide“
— Saadi, kniha Gulistan of Sa'di
Gulistan (1258), Chapter 3, story 28 http://books.google.com/books?id=LDpbAAAAQAAJ&q=%22use+a+sweet+tongue+courtesy+and+gentleness+and+thou+mayst+manage+to+guide+an+elephant+with+a+hair%22&pg=PA292#v=onepage
„Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair.“
— Saadi, kniha Gulistan of Sa'di
Gulistan (1258), Chapter 3, story 28 http://books.google.com/books?id=LDpbAAAAQAAJ&q=%22use+a+sweet+tongue+courtesy+and+gentleness+and+thou+mayst+manage+to+guide+an+elephant+with+a+hair%22&pg=PA292#v=onepage
