The moon and the stars

William Blake, from "Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion" - via Wikimedia Commons

“إذا كان القمر معك لا تبالي بالنجوم

If the moon be with you, care not for the stars.”

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The Arabic appears in John Lewis Burckhardt, Arabic Proverbs, Or the manners and customs of the Modern Egyptians (London, 1830), 2.