The Talmud
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Customs are more powerful than laws.
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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 that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.
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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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Learning is achieved only in company.
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Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.
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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
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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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Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
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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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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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Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
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Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
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When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.
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Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.