Vanity prevents improvement
IMAM ALIPatience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.
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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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Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
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Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
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Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
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Greed is permanent slavery.
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Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
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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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Silence is the best reply to a fool.
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Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
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Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted.
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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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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
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Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become.
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The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.
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One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
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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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The worst of our faults is our interest in other people’s faults.
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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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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
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The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.
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Poverty is the worst form of death.
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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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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
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The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
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How many lessons there are and how little they are taken.
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