Saadi Shirazi, Persian poet and prose writer of the Middle Ages, combines wit and wisdom to convey moral lessons to live by.
“Perceivest thou not that in a garden there are musk-willows as well as withered sticks? And likewise in the crowd of the rich there are grateful and impious men, as also in the circle of dervishes some are forbearing and some are impatient. …The greatest of rich men is he who sympathizes with dervishes and the best of dervishes is he who looks but little towards rich men. Who trusts in Allah, he will be his sufficient support.”
Saadi Shirazi