Wealth has no permanence ...

Wealth has no permanence: it comes in the morning,and at night it is scattered to the winds.Physical beauty too has no importance,for a rosy face is made pale by the scratch of a single thorn.Noble birth also is of small account,for many become fools of money and horses.Many a nobleman's son has disgraced his father by his wicked deeds.Don't court a person full of talent either,even if he seems exquisite in that respect:take warning from the example of Iblis.Iblis had knowledge, but since his love was not pure,he saw in Adam nothing but a figure of clay.

[Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi]

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