Wise Sayings of Khalifah Imam Ali ibn AbiTalib Al-Hashimi
By the 4th Rightful Caliph of Islam

* Fear God and you will have no cause to fear any one
* Resignation to the Will of God is the cure of the disease of the heart
* The word of God is the medicine of the heart
* Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company
* The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive

* Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world
* Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return
* Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women
* The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife
* He who knows himself knows God

* Do not soil your conscience for anything but heaven
* The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body
* To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights
* The strongest amongst you is he who subdues his self
* Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils

* Riches without faith are the greatest poverty
* A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations
* Knowledge enlivens the soul
* The learned lives, although he dies
* The sum total of excellence is knowledge

* To respect the learned is to respect God
* Generosity hides shortcomings
* The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble
* Desire is one's most inveterate enemy
* Those who walk on the surface of the earth shall one day be interred in it

* Every breath of man brings him nearer to death
* People are asleep as long as they are alive; they are awakened when they die
* Patience is the fruit of faith
* Virtue never dies
* A man's glory from his virtue is greater than the glory of his pedigree

* No shelter is safer than piety
* A man's behaviour is the index of his mind
* Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything
* Clemency graces power
* Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours fuel

* He that lends a listening ear to reproach is one of those that deserve reproach
* Forgiveness is the crown of greatness
* Carnal appetites are nets spread by the devil
* Every arrow does not hit the mark, nor every prayer granted
* Ostentatiousness spoils prayers

* Fear none but your sins
* He who praises you murders you
* A man who praises himself displays his deficiency of intellect
* Honour your parents and your sons will honour you
* A man is hid under his tongue

* The tongue of a wise man lies behind his heart
* The tongue pierces deeper than the spear
* He who purifies his heart from doubt is a believer
* The opinion of a wise man is an oracle
* To seek counsel is to go to the fountain of guidance

* Association with a fool is tyrannical to the soul
* God hastens the fall of tyrants
* Tyranny leads to moral cowardice
* A tyrant's success is his moral defeat
* It is better to die than to beg

* When a man begs he loses his faith
* Hajj is the Jihad of every believer in faith
* A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend
* Silence is the best reply to a fool
* The best speech is one that is short and reasonable

* Speech is like a medicine, a small dose of which cures but an excess of which kills
* He that has no courage has no religion
* His grief is long whose hope is short
* The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth

* Repentance washes away sins
* Folly is an incurable disease
* To assist the wrong is to oppress the right
* Sinning is a disease, repentance is its medicine, and abstinence from it a sure cure

* Sorrow makes a man old before his time
* Pride impedes progress and mars greatness
* To forgive is the crown of greatness
* He who understands humanity seeks solitude
* Right is the best argument

* Misrepresentation spoils narration
* As a man's wisdom increases, so his desire to speak decreases
* He who seeks to do justice with men, let him desire for them what he desires for himself
* The greatest sin is the sin that the sinner considers to be ordinary
* Contentment is the asset which is never exhausted

* Governments are a trial for men
* He who fights against the truth, the truth will defeat him
* Finding fault in others is one's greatest fault
* Haste is a species of madness