Persian proverbs

In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.

If you fall into a pit, Providence is under no obligation to come and look for you.

If you tell the truth too early, you are laughed at -- too late and you are stoned.

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

The lover who gives you her body but not her heart is generous with thornless roses.

If you can give me no ointment for my wound, can you help me by not rubbing salt in?

Comfortable is he who doesn't have a donkey -- Doesn't know of its straw and barley.

Woe to being a housewife/househusband, you buy one thing, you don't have two others.

When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks.

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

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