Vanity prevents improvement
IMAM ALIWealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
More Imam Ali Quotes
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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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Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.
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Hate no one, no matter how much they’ve wronged you.
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Silence is the garden of thought.
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Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
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Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.
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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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The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
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To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.
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I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.
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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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The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
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The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
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Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.
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Happiness comes towards those which believe in him.
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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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There is no nobility with bad manners.
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A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.
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Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
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Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.
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I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for 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 wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
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I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
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The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.
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Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.
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