If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Caution, Risk
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Thought, Reason, Memory
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Meditation
When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Agreement
Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Paradise
Eat little, sleep sound
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Eating
Flies will easily fly into the honey—their problem is how to get out.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Problems
Be a lion at home and a fox abroad.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Home
Who has ever seen tomorrow?
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Tomorrow
I kept, I lost. I have, I gave. I gave, I gained.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kindness
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Life and Living
There are three kinds of enemy: the enemy himself, the friends of your enemy, and the enemies of your friends.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Enemies
If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Misfortune
Write kind words in marble, insults in sand.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Words
The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can’t.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Eyes
The big drum only sounds well from a distance.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
The mediator in a fight gets all the blows.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Fighting
The public improves the speaker’s speech.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Speech
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Luck
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can’t get back from revenge.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Revenge, Forgiveness
A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn’t
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Words, Proverbs
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Blessings
God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heart
Thick body, weak soul.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: The Body
If you really have to sin, and then choose a sin that you enjoy.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment
A mirror does not reflect a broken heart.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heart
Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Every man is the king of his own beard.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kings
A dog by your side is better than a brother miles away.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Brothers
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