A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in time of need, behind your back, and after your death.
IMAM ALIAlways consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.
More Imam Ali Quotes
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Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
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Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
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Poverty is the worst form of death.
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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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Hate no one, no matter how much they’ve wronged you.
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The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.
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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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The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
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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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A man’s worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
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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 understands humanity seeks solitude.
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The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
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Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
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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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