Quotes from Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

The definition of the word 'finished' is: 'This word means finished.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb