Farid al-Din Attar Quotes

This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Farid al-Din Attar

• Friendship
• Promise
• Sorrow
• Thousand
• Treachery
• Blasphemy

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  Farid al-Din Attar
  • Friendship
  • Promise
  • Sorrow