Part 3 -- Life; Death -- Maxims of Ali
GOOGLE.COM -- Worldwide glory can be undone by an hour's degradation. ~~ Life is an enemy that you did not provoke; that which you did not oppress, oppresses you; that which you never attacked, attacks you. ~~ Three defects make life disagreeable -- vindictiveness, jealousy, a bad character. ~~ The past seems never to have been, and the future already to have been. ~~ It is astonishing that any one, and even while seeing his like die, should forget death. ~~ One expecting death gives himself up to good deeds. ~~ The rudest trials are these three ...
