“A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.”
Nahj al-Balagha
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Narrated in Mosnad Ahmad, #22978
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First Dialogue, Delmonce
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
“There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.”
Source: Tis Herself (2004), p.239