Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.
IMAM ALICourtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
More Imam Ali Quotes
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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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Don’t engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.
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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 for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
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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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Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
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Loving one another is half of wisdom.
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I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.
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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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One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
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Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.
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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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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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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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