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Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.
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