More from Ali Ben Abi Taleb
- Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Translated by James Russell Lowell. Often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Accept loss forever
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844
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