Alone with the Alone

Quote No. 24 from Ali Ibn Abi Talib

On Virtue and Self-Mastery

رضِيَ بالذلِّ من كشفَ عن ضرِّهِ لمن لا يرحمه.

To confide your troubles to the merciless is to accept humiliation.

No. 24

These quotes come from Alone with the Alone, a 264-page bilingual hardcover of 113 quotes from Ali Ibn Abi Talib, with footnotes and an afterword.

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