Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.1
Note 1. Translated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and wrongly called by him a translation from Omar Khayyám.
Found in Dr. Hermann Tolowiez’s “Polyglotte der Orientalischen Poesie.”
Translated by James Russell Lowell thus:— He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [back]
