Silence is the best reply to a fool.
IMAM ALIThere are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.
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Don’t engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.
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Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
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Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.
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Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
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Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.
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Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.
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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
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Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
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Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
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Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.
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Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.
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The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
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There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.
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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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The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.
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