Ali ibn Abi Talib

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”

“Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.”

“The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.”

“The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.”

“People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.”

“A man's measure is his will.”

“Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.”

“If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.”

“Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.”

“Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.”

“Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.”

“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”

“No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.”

“To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.”

“He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.”

“Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.”

“If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.”

“You are as much able as you know”

“I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.”

“If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.”