Hazrat Ali (AS)-God of Nusairies.

• To keep silent when you can say something wise and useful is as bad as to keep on propagating foolish and unwise thoughts.
• Adversities often bring your good qualities to the front.
• He who praises you murders you.
• Enemity is the occupation of fools.
• To teach is to learn.
• Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything.
• He who listens to a backbiter loses a friend.
• The tongue of a wise man lies behind his heart.
• Do not speak in a state of ignorance.
• Knowledge gives life to the soul.
• Speech is like medicine, a small dose of which cures, and an excess of which kills. He who teaches you a letter, binds you with a fetter of gratitude.
• A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. 41. A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.
• A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.
• Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
• Success is the result of foresight and resolution, foresight depends upon deep thinking and planning, and the most important factor of planning is to keep your secrets to yourself.
• Do not close a door that you are unable to open.
• The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
• Truth is bitter, but its result is sweet; falsehood appears to be sweet but it is poisonous in its effect.
• Minds are locked-up stores, only questions open them.
• Knowledge is better than wealth. Knowledge guards you while you have to guard wealth. Wealth decreases by spending while knowledge increases by spending, and the results of wealth die as wealth decay. With it a man acquires obedience during his lifetime and a good name after his death. Knowledge is a ruler while wealth is ruled upon.
• Avarice is disgrace; cowardice is a defect; poverty often disables an intelligent man from arguing his case; a poor man is a stranger in his own town; misfortune and helplessness are calamities; patience is a kind of bravery; to sever attachments with the wicked world is the greatest wealth; piety is the best weapon of defense.