Collection of Persian proverbs, popular sayings and sayings in Persia translated into Italian, as testimony to the infinite wisdom of this people, capable of grasping unexplored aspects of life.
Persian idioms
- A flirtatious woman is like a shadow, if you chase her she runs away and if you run away she chases you.
- You would not find the boundaries of the soul even if you travel every road, not even swimming in the long Yellow River, such is its depth.
- One spark is enough to burn a hundred worlds.
- Have a guardian watch over your jewels, but never hire anyone to watch your secrets.
- A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
- A thief knows a thief like a wolf knows a wolf.
- Little by little a thread of wool becomes a carpet.
- In two places you will know your true friend: when you are sick in bed or when you are in prison.
- A mountain does not meet a mountain, but a man meets a man.
- It takes two days to learn all about a man; to know the animals you will need more time.
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- Magnanimity consists in doing justice by not asking for justice.
- Do little things now; so great things will come to you and ask to be done.
- If at noon the king tells you that it is late at night, you contemplate the stars.
- To the bad guys as to the good guys, always do charity. By doing it to the good, you will add merit to your virtues; by doing it to the bad guys, you will avoid the danger of being deceived.
- A good father can make more than 100 school teachers.
- One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
- Every man is the king of his beard.
- Corruption makes both parties happy.
- If there are two cooks in a house, the soup is too salty or too cold.
- Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
- Eating is one of the four purposes of life. What are the other three nobody has ever known.
- An ungrateful son is a wart on his father's nose, if he leaves it is ugly, if he takes it off, it hurts.
Persian sayings
- If children's prayers had any effect, there would not be a single teacher alive.
- Knowledge without patience is like a candle without light.
- Experience is a comb, which nature gives to men when they are bald.
- A friend is like a poem.
- Doubt moves the mountains that faith cannot move.
- If all the ants gathered, they would end up overwhelming the most formidable lions.
- The audience improves the speaker's speech.
- Look for the truth in meditation and not in the dark books.
- A sharp tongue will cut its head.
- The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers cannot.
- A child is a bridge to heaven.
- The land is a landlord who kills his guests.
- A camel does not drink with a spoon.
- By taking the first step with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, you enter paradise.
- The little ant never fears famine; the lion, despite its sharp teeth and sharp claws, does not always find food.
- Look for the truth in meditation and not in the dark books.
- In the course of his life man does not know his own spirit; after death forget your body.
- The most beautiful faces are seen in the moonlight, when you look half with the eye and half with the imagination.
- Who does not know, and does not know that he does not know, is a fool to avoid.
- There are four things that every person has more than they think: sins, debts, years, and enemies.
- The greater the number of laws, the greater the number of robbers and thieves.
- The fruits of happiness are not reaped on the tree of injustice.
Persian proverbs
- The severity of the master is easier to bear than the prejudice of the father.
- A friend is known in adversity, as gold is known in fire.
- You can fall off the horse, but not from honor.
- Look at the Sky to look for the Moon and not in the pond.
- The fruits of happiness are not reaped on the tree of injustice.
- Spring won't come from a flower.
- There are three types of enemies: the enemy, your enemy's friends, and your friends' enemies.
- Whoever has only one enemy, meets him everywhere.
- There are three things that must be done quickly: bury the dead, open the door to a stranger, and secure your daughter's wedding.
- Never open a door that cannot be closed again.
- Treat your superior like a father, your equal like a brother, and your inferior like a son.
- God gives us according to the measure of our hearts.
- Do not let a man's glory reside in the love of his country, but rather his glory is to love his fellow man.
- The birdless cage has very little value.
- The best way to teach is to practice what we preach.
- He whose heart is raised from love will never die.
- Four walls make a man free.
- What you eat becomes putridume, what you give becomes a rose.
- With a sweet and gentle tongue, it is possible to drag an elephant by a hair.
- Our real grave is not in the ground, but in the hearts of men.
