Shaikh Sadi (1208-1292) from Bostan. If thou desires..

If thou desire dignity, do not, like the mean, regard thy fellows with contemptuous eyes.

Shaikh Sadi (1208-1292) from Bostan. Expect not….

Expect not fro him who is possessed of worldly vanities to follow the path of religion, nor look for godliness in him who wallows in conceit.

Bostan e Sadi. The great do not…..

The great do not regard themselves; look not for the godliness in a self-conceited man. Eminence does not consist in outward show and vaunting words, nor dignity in hauteur and pretension.

Bostan e Sadi. He who has neither…

He who has neither knowledge, nor generosity, nor piety resembles a man in form alone. He sleeps at peace beneath the ground who made tranquil the hearts of men.