Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
IMAM ALIDo not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.
More Imam Ali Quotes
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Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
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One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
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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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Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
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Stubbornness destroys good advice.
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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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Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.
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He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
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Silence is the best reply to a fool.
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Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.
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No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.
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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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A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
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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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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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