Greed is permanent slavery.
IMAM ALITo fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.
More Imam Ali Quotes
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Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.
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A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.
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Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
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He lives as though death shall never come to him – but dies in a way as if he were never born.
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It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
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I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.
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A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.
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Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.
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There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.
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Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
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Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
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Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
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Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
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Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
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There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.
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