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(288 votes)   A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

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BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(216 votes)   This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

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(182 votes)   The sun will set without thy assistance.

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(168 votes)   Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.

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(152 votes)   A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

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(125 votes)   Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

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(115 votes)   Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

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(105 votes)   Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure.

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(102 votes)   When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

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(96 votes)   The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

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(91 votes)   We cannot learn everything from ‘general principles’ there may be exceptions.

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(85 votes)   Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

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(84 votes)   Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

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(83 votes)   The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.

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(81 votes)   Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

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