Secrecy
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
al-sirr · secrecy · the hiding of hardships · trust · your secret
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The keeping of what is one's own, whether a secret or a hardship, treated as a discipline of self-containment.
Your own breast is the roomier place for your secret.
To Demonicus
The discipline of keeping confidences and being worthy of others' trust.
Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care;
Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you, and in either case do not expose your heart to others;
Never allow yourself to be put under oath save for one of two reasons—in order to clear yourself of disgraceful charges or to save your friends from great dangers.