Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
Ali ibn Abi TalibA man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
Ali ibn Abi TalibAlways consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.
Ali ibn Abi TalibIn this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.
Ali ibn Abi Talib