The Talmud Quotes

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• You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.
• I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
• The highest form of wisdom is kindness
• He who loves money will not be satisfied with money.
• Make your books your companions.
• The sacred books should be burned rather than made available to women.
• A legal decision depends not on the teacher's age, but on the force of his argument
• He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The…
• A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
• For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
• To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
• He who promises runs in debt
• Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives -…
• Doubt cannot override a certainty.
• The Divine Spirit does not reside in any except the joyful heart
• Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession
• Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
• There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.
• A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
• Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'

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