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The road through life is like the edge of a blade, with the netherworld on either side.
- Moshe Leib of Sasov
- Moshe Leib of Sasov
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Daily Jewish Wisdom
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Learning must be sought; it will not come of itself.
- Simeon b. Lakish, Midrash Mishlep
- Simeon b. Lakish, Midrash Mishlep
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Remember the virtues you lack and the faults you have; forget the good you did and the wrong you received.
- Orhot Tzaddikim
- Orhot Tzaddikim
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Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
- Ibn Gabirol, "Mibhar HaPeninim"
- Ibn Gabirol, "Mibhar HaPeninim"
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Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
- Heschel, "Man Is Not Alone"
- Heschel, "Man Is Not Alone"
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He is great who is not ashamed to admit he does not know.
- Judah HaNasi, Talmud Jerushalmi: Hagiga
- Judah HaNasi, Talmud Jerushalmi: Hagiga
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One may not rely on a miracle.
- Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 64b
- Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 64b
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People say: If you cannot pass, you must return. We say: If you cannot pass, you must pass.
- Israel Salanter Lipkin
- Israel Salanter Lipkin
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In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.
- Israel Zangwill, 1921
- Israel Zangwill, 1921
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
- Herbert Swope, address, Dec. 20, 1950
- Herbert Swope, address, Dec. 20, 1950
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The dietary laws train us to master our appetites... and not to consider... eating and drinking the end of man's existence.
- Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
- Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
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Friendship is like a treasury: you cannot take from it more than you put into it.
- Benjamin Mandelstamm, 19th century Russian author
- Benjamin Mandelstamm, 19th century Russian author
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
- Maimonides, "Yad: Deot"
- Maimonides, "Yad: Deot"
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Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it a meaning.
- Leo Baeck, "Essence of Judaism"
- Leo Baeck, "Essence of Judaism"
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The community of the living is the carriage of the Lord.
- Hasidic proverb
- Hasidic proverb
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Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes.
- Yiddish proverb
- Yiddish proverb
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When a thief has nothing to steal, he regards his "virtue" as real.
- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 22a
- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 22a
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No tongue speaks as much ill of us as our own.
- Sholom Aleichem, "Olom Habo"
- Sholom Aleichem, "Olom Habo"
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Anger deprives a sage of his wisdom, a prophet of his vision.
- Simeon b. Lakish, Talmud: Pesahim 66b
- Simeon b. Lakish, Talmud: Pesahim 66b
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One pang of conscience is worth more than many lashes.
- Jose b. Halafta, Talmud: Berakhot, 7a
- Jose b. Halafta, Talmud: Berakhot, 7a