Imam Ali Wise Sayings 7

You will not find an ignorant person but at one extreme or another (i.e. a person who neglects or a person who exaggerates).
As intelligence increases, speech decreases.242
Time wears out bodies, renews desires, brings death nearer and takes away aspirations. Whoever is successful with it encounters grief, and whoever misses its favors also undergoes hardships.
Each breath taken by a man is a step towards his death.243
Every countable thing is to pass way and every expected thing must come about.
If matters get mixed up, then the last ones should be appreciated compared to the previous one.
A wise saying is a lost article of the believer. Therefore, get wise sayings even though from people of hypocrisy.
The worth of every man is in his attainments.
The survivors of the sword are large in number and have many offspring.
Whoever abandons saying, “I do not know” meets his destruction.