<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512355" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 81</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sage was asked: ‘Of so many notable, high and fertile trees which God the most high has created, not one is called free, except the cypress, which bears no fruit. What is the reason of this?’ He replied: ‘Every tree has its appropriate season of fruit, so that it is sometimes flourishing therewith, and looks sometimes withered by its absence; with the cypress, however, neither is the case, it being fresh at all times, and this is the quality of those who are free.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Place not thy heart on what passes away; for the Tigris <br> Will flow after the Khalifs have passed away in Baghdad. <br> If thou art able, be liberal like the date tree, <br> And if thy hand cannot afford it, be liberal like the cypress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sa+di">Sa di</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512355" data-title="Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 81 de Sa di" data-description="A sage was asked: ‘Of so many notable, high and fertile trees which God the most high has created, not one is called free, except the cypress, which bears no fruit. What is the reason of this?’ He replied: ‘Every tree has its appropriate sea..."></div> </div> </div>

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