He Said

Iraqi style
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He Said

Never keep company with common people, for they will shrink your good name down to their own small measure. Even if company with the common crowd were paradise itself, death would be better; let the death of the common be far from me.
Explanation: The word 'aam' means the uneducated common masses, contrasted with the discerning few. The poet prizes association with the wise over the many.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۱۷ - و قال

هیچ صحبت مباد با عامت که چو خود مختصر کند نامت
صحبت عام در بهشت ، آباد مرگ بهتر ، که مرگ عامی باد