The Jewish Wisdom Database

Are you for us or for our adversaries?

When a man's ways please Him, the Lord causes even his enemies to make peace with him.

Rejoice not when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles!

If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, water to drink!

If you return evil for good, evil will not depart from your house.

The end of faith is but the pursuit of good.

If you do a man a favor, do not regard it as a debt he must repay!

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

The complacency of fools is their undoing.

The way of the fool is right in his own eyes.

The simpleton believes everything.

Even a fool, if he keeps mum, is deemed wise.

A fool's tongue is his tragedy.

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is unfitting for fools.

A word to the wise is enough, but a fool needs a fist.

Who chases two foxes at once will catch neither.

Who belittles his friend lacks wit.

Wealth makes many friends.

Faithful are the words of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Be careful of two men and guard yourself against them: the friend of your enemy and the enemy of your friend!

A gift given in secret averts wrath.

Honor the Lord with your substance!

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Do not withhold good where it is due, if it be in your power to bestow it!