Gulistan of Saadi | On the Advantages of Silence | Story 6
Gulistan of Saadi On the Advantages of Silence Story 6 Subhan Vail is considered to have had no equal in rhetorics because he had...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Advantages of Silence | Story 5
Gulistan of Saadi On the Advantages of Silence Story 5 Galenus saw a fool hanging on with his hands to the collar of a...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Advantages of Silence | Story 4
Gulistan of Saadi On the Advantages of Silence Story 4 A scholar of note had a controversy with an unbeliever but, being unable to...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Advantages of Silence | Story 3
Gulistan of Saadi On the Advantages of Silence Story 3 An intelligent youth possessed an abundant share of accomplishments and discreet behavior so that...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Advantages of Silence | Story 2
Gulistan of Saadi On the Advantages of Silence Story 2 A merchant, having suffered the loss of a thousand dinars, enjoined his son not...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Advantages of Silence | Story 1
Gulistan of Saadi On the Advantages of Silence Story 1 I said to a friend that I have chosen rather to be silent than to...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Excellence of Contentment | Story 29
Gulistan of Saadi On the Excellence of Contentment Story 29 I heard that a dervish, sitting in a cave, had closed the doors upon...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Excellence of Contentment | Story 28
Gulistan of Saadi On the Excellence of Contentment Story 28 It is related that an athlete had been reduced to the greatest distress by adverse...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Excellence of Contentment | Story 27
Gulistan of Saadi On the Excellence of Contentment Story 27 A thief said to a mendicant: 'Art thou not ashamed to stretch out thy...
Gulistan of Saadi | On the Excellence of Contentment | Story 26
Gulistan of Saadi On the Excellence of Contentment Story 26 I have seen a fat fool, dressed in a costly robe, with a turban...