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the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism
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- A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
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- All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her.
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- Be cautious in your intercourse with the great; they seldom confer obligations on their inferiors but from interested motives. Friendly they appear as long as it serves their turn, but they will render no assistance in time of actual need.
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- Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
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- Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin.
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- Customs are more powerful than laws.
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- Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, Grow
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- For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
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- God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.
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- He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.
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- He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.
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- He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away.
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- He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.
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- He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
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- He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot.
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- He who mixes with unclean things becomes unclean himself; he whose associations are pure becomes purer each day.
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- Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.
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- Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
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- If thou lackest knowledge, what hast thou then acquired? Hast thou acquired knowledge, what else dost thou want?
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- If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before.
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- Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
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- Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.
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- Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
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- Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
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- Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
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- Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.
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- Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
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- Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
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- Never put thyself in the way of temptation: even David could not resist it.
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- Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important. A profusion of words is sure to lead to error.
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- Rather skin a carcass for pay in the public streets than be idly dependent on charity.
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- Seven things characterise the wise man, and seven the blockhead. The wise man speaks not before those who are his superiors, either in age or wisdom. He interrupts not others in the midst of their discourse. He replies not hastily. His questions are relevant to the subject, his answers, to the purpose. In delivering his sentiments he taketh the first in order first, the last, last. What he understands not he says, ?I understand not.? He acknowledges his error, and is open to conviction. The reverse of all this characterises the blockhead.
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- The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.
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- The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.
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- The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
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- The sun sets without thy assistance.
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- There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.
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- There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.
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- There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.
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- Understand a man by his deeds and words; the impressions of others lead to false judgment.
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- Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
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- Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
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- Who is a wise man He who learns of all men.
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- Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
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- Whosoever does not persecute them that persecute him; whosoever takes an offence in silence; he who does good because of love; he who is cheerful under his sufferings?these are the friends of God, and of them the Scripture says, ?They shall shine forth like the sun at noontide.?
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