Better hold the hand for coin, though small, than lose, for one half a dang, it all.
Saadi in Gulistan (The Rose Garden), On the Excellence of Contentment (1258)
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1 Dan Costinas said on 03 April 2013: |
Or: «It is better to stretch out the hand for a grain of silver, than to have it cut off for having stolen a dang and a half.» ~ according to Francis Gladwin's translation (1865) |