Sa di

Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 01

said to a friend that I have chosen rather to be silent than to speak because on most occasions good and bad words are scattered concurrently but enemies perceive only the latter. He replied: ‘That enemy is the greatest who does not see any good. ’ The brother of enmity passes not near a good man Except to consider him as a most wicked liar. Virtue is to the eyes of enmity the greatest fault. Sa’di is a rose but to the eye of enemies a thorn. The world illumining sun and fountain of light Look ugly to the eye of the mole. THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)