"The source of every disobedience, heedlessness and desire is being pleased with the self, and the source of every obedience, awareness and self respect is your not being pleased with it. To keep the company of an ignoramus who is not pleased with himself is better for you than to keep the company of a scholar who is pleased himself, for what ignorance does and an ignoramus have who is pleased with himself and what knowledge does a scholar have who is pleased with himself?"
[Ibn Ata'ilah, Maxim 35 from Book of Wisdoms -al-Hikam al-‘Ata'iyya]
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