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Quote of the day " A bad peace is better than a good war.
(Yiddish saying)

A fool is one who trusts another fool.
(Sephardic saying)

A giant in your eyes may be a dwarf in ours.
(Genesis Rabbah)

A life of isolation, devoted only to prayer and meditation, is not Jewish.
(Samson Raphael Hirsch)

A light for one is a light for one hundred.
(Talmud)

A little sin becomes a big sin when committed by a big man.
(Abraham ibn Ezra)

A man's service of God is sincere when he wants no publicity for it.
(Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav)

A man who thinks he can live without other people is wrong, and a man who thinks others cannot live without him is even more wrong.
(Hassidic saying)

A man without a wife has no defense against temptation.
(Talmud)

A person does not fall because he is weak, but because he thinks he is strong.
(Yiddish saying)

A person who has no confidence speaks lies; a liar has no confidence.
(Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav)

A proud man is not loved even in his own home.
(Talmud)

A proud man never praises anyone.
(Zohar)

A quarrelsome man deserves no answers.
(Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav)

A talkative man is dreaded, and a man who speaks rashly is hated.
(Wisdom of Sirach)

A truth does not become greater through repetition.
(Maimonides)

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
(Maimonides)

A wise man understands with a hint, a donkey needs a fist.
(Moroccan Jewish saying)

A woman prefers poverty with love to wealth without love.
(Talmud)

A woman that is loved always has success.
(Vicki Baum)

All men are responsible for one another.
(Talmud)

An ignoramus believes the whole world exists only for him. If anything happens to him contrary to his expectations, he concludes the whole world is evil.
(Maimonides)

Arbitrating is tempering justice with charity.
(Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav)

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
(Benjamin Disraeli)

As a house implies a builder, a dress a weaver, a door a carpenter, so the world proclaims God, its Creator.
(Rabbi Akiva)

As a rule, men love one another -- from a distance.
(Shalom Aleichem)

Asking questions is man's finest quality.
(Solomon ibn Gabirol)

Be liberal with your wealth, not with your words.
(Bahya ibn Pakuda)

Be sure to ask your teacher his reasons and his sources.
(Rashi)

Be very meek, for man's destiny is the worm.
(Ethics of the Fathers)

Beauty wanes, but a good name endures.
(Ahikar)

Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.
(Rabbi Akiva)

Better a superstitious believer than a rationalistic unbeliever.
(Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav)

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
(Judah ben Samuel)

Between bad company and loneliness, the latter is preferable.
(Sephardic saying)

Blessed is the man whose heart bears no malice.
(Baruch)

Diplomacy is the art of dealing with thieves.
(Theodor Herzl)

Dissension in a house will lead to its destruction.
(Talmud)

Do not dishonor the old -- we shall be numbered among them.
(Wisdom of Sirach)

Do not hold a man responsible for what he says in his distress.
(Talmud)

Do not pray that sinners die, but rather that they repent.
(B'ruriah)

Do not put yourself in the path of temptation -- even King David could not resist it.
(Talmud)

Do not rebuke your fellow man so as not to shame him in public.
(Rashi)

Do not rejoice on hearing a bad rumor.
(Yemenite Jewish saying)

Do not sigh, for your enemy will hear and rejoice.
(Yemenite Jewish saying)

Don't pity me if I am poor, but only if I am alone.
(Sephardic saying)

Don't say 'I'll study when I have time,' because you may never have time.
(Hillel)

Don't worry about tomorrow. Who knows what may happen to you today.
(Talmud)

Each individual will be called to account in the hereafter for every pleasure he declined without sufficient cause.
(Abba Aricha)

Envy a man nothing, except his virtue.
(Eleazar ben Judah of Worms)

Even in paradise, it is not good to be alone.
(Yiddish saying)

Every act of kindness that God performs for man should make him feel not proud, but more humble and unworthy.
(Sneur Zalman)

Every bride is beautiful and graceful.
(Hillel)

Everything above and below is one unity.
(Baal Shem Tov)

Few people are bad, but many are weak.
(Louis D. Brandeis)

First, become a blessing to yourself so that you may be a blessing to others.
(Samson Raphael Hirsch)

From success to failure is one step. From failure to success is a long road.
(Yiddish saying)

From your opinion of others, we know the opinion of you.
(Moses ibn Ezra)

Gentle speech multiplies friends.
(Wisdom of Sirach)

Get yourself a teacher, acquire a friend, and judge everyone charitably.
(Ethics of the Fathers)

Give every man the benefit of the doubt.
(Ethics of the Fathers)

Give your ear to all, your had to friends, but your lips only to your wife.
(Yiddish saying)

God is the creator of laughter that is good.
(Philo)

God tests the righteous.
(Sephardic saying)

Great is repentance because it brings the human being close to the Divine Presence. Yesterday, when a person sinned, he was hated before God, disgusting and distant, an abomination. Today, he is beloved, sweet, near, a precious friend. Yesterday a person was separated from God. Today he cleaves to the Divine Presence.
(Maimonides)

Great is repentance; it turns sons into incentives for correct conduct.
(Simeon ben Lakish)

He who asks mercy for another, while he himself is in need, will be answered first.
(Talmud)

He who does not learn forfeits his life.
(Hillel)

He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.
(Rabbi Akiva)

He who saves one soul, it is as though he saved the world. -- Talmud)

Hope for a miracle, but don't rely on it.
(Talmud)

Humiliation is worse than physical pain.
(Talmud)

If a man can't control his temper, how can he control other people?
(Solomon ibn Gabirol)

If a man, after prayer, is proud or self-satisfied, let him know that he has prayed not to God, but to himself.
(Baal Shem Tov)

If a word is worth one shekel, silence is worth two.
(Talmud)

If I am not concerned for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what good am I? And if now is not the time to act, when will it be?
(Hillel)

If I don't acquire ideal when young, when will I? Not when I am old.
(Maimonides)

If I love God, what need have I of the world to come?
(Baal Shem Tov)

If the vision of a beautiful woman, or of any lovely thing, comes suddenly to mind, let a man say to himself: The source of such beauty must be from the divine source which permeates the universe. So why be attracted by a part? Better be drawn after the All. Perception of beauty is an experience of the Eternal.
(Baal Shem Tov)

If you are proved right, you gain little, but if you are proved wrong you gain much -- you learn the truth.
(Judah ben Samuel)

If you have learned much Torah, do not boast of it, for it was for that purpose that you were born.
(Johanan ben Zakkai)

If you seek to lead your neighbor in the right path, you must do so out of love.
(Baal Shem Tov)

If you want to live in this world, get yourself a heart that can endure suffering.
(Leviticus Rabbah)

In defeat we are victorious, in death we are reborn.
(Sholem Asch)

In every age, virtue has been exceedingly spare.
(Baruch Spinoza)

In prayer, always associate yourself with the congregation and say, Our God, lead us.
(Abbaye)

In the eyes of God, the rich and poor are equal.
(German Jewish saying)

In the future world there will be no eating, drinking, propagation, business, jealousy, hatred, or compensation, but the righteous will sit with crowns on their heads, enjoying the brilliance of the Divine Presence.
(Abba Aricha)

It is better to grow wings and fly away, than submit to a godless king.
(Esther Rabbah)

It is better to talk to a woman and think of God, than talk to God and think of a woman.
(Yiddish saying)

It is beyond man's power to explain the prosperity of the wicked or the troubles of the good.
(Ethics of the Fathers)

It is easier for an apathetic man to be stirred to pleasure than for a man afire with passion to curb his lusts.
(Maimonides)

It is forbidden to observe a commandment by committing a sin.
(Simeon bar Yochai)

Jerusalem was destroyed because it had desecrated the Sabbath.
(Talmud)

Jerusalem was destroyed for not respecting scholars.
(Talmud)

Judaism is not identical with the law: it creates it. Judaism itself is not law. Judaism is -- to be a Jew.
(Franz Rosenzweig)

Judge your words before you utter them.
(Talmud)

Keep far from strife, and sin will keep far from you.
(Wisdom of Sirach)

Let your tongue be imprisoned in your mouth.
(Hai Gaon)

Look at the end of the verse; do not judge half a passage.
(B'ruriah)

'Love your neighbor as yourself' is the great principle of the Torah -- Rabbi Akiva)

Lust and reason are enemies.
(Solomon ibn Gabirol)

Lust should be stifled, for it does not lead to truth.
(Moses ibn Ezra)

Man's creed is that he believes in God and therefore in mankind, but not that he believes in a creed.
(Leo Baeck)

Many a man who does not fear God wraps himself in a prayer shawl.
(Abraham ibn Ezra)

Man dies when he stops working.
(Talmud)

Man is capable of perfection because of the power of reason, given to him by God.
(Maimonides)

Master a trade and God will provide.
(Ecclesiastes Rabbah)

Melody and song lead the heart of man to God.
(Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav)

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
(Baruch Spinoza)
[Miscellaneous Jewish Sayings]"

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