From the Pages of Gibran Khalil Gibran
A short collection of aphorisms and quotations on action, accountability, oppression, and the path to dawn, including lines attributed to Publilius Syrus and Ali Ibrahim Al-Mousawi.
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- "Impertinence is to forget your action...... and to hold me accountable for my reaction"!
- "The saying may not bother us but the speaker pains us, and the deed may not affect us, but the doer shocks us"!
- "The oppressed prisoner who can demolish the walls of his prison and does not do so is a coward"!
- "No one can reach dawn without passing through the path of darkness".!
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"It is the will — not the body — that makes corruption": "Publilius Syrus"
"Corruption is like a foul odor; it is not enough to plug your nose against it... rather you must search for its source... and remove it...!" "Ali Ibrahim Al-Mousawi"
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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “From the Pages of Gibran Khalil Gibran” (English translation of «من صفحات كتب "جبران خليل جبران"», originally published 12 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/from-the-pages-of-gibran-khalil-gibran
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