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In the name of God, who gives life and mind to humans. Human thoughts cannot go higher than Him or fully understand Him.

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Wisdom shows us the right path and brings peace to the heart. Wisdom helps a person in this world and in the next world (the afterlife).

Wisdom is the best gift God gave to humans. The best thing to do is to praise wisdom — this is right and fair.

O my son, thy lips still smell of milk, and thy heart should go out to pleasure. But the days are grave, and Iran looketh unto thee in its danger.

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

I turn to right and left, in all the earth
I see no signs of justice, sense or worth:
A man does evil deeds, and all his days
Are filled with luck and universal praise;
Another's good in all he does—he dies
A wretched, broken man whom all despise.

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