Hillel the Elder Quotes

13 quotes in 119 categories

• If not you, who? If not now, when?
• He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
• Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go…
• Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.
• Say not: “When I have free time I shall study”, for you may perhaps never have any free time
• Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
• What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.
• Who does not grow, declines.
• Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.
• Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and…
• If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
• In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.
• Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

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