I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
IMAM ALISurely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
More Imam Ali Quotes
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Stubbornness destroys good advice.
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The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
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True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
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He who understands humanity seeks solitude.
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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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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
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Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
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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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People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
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How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth.
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When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
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Man ruins is present while worrying about his future – – but weeps in the future by recalling his past.
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He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
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Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
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A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
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Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
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Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.
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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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No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.
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Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.
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To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.
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Loving one another is half of wisdom.
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The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
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