The Jewish Wisdom Database

Accept the apology of one who offers it, be it truth or lie!

The fruit of boasting is hatred.

Good company saves one from bad deeds.

When you die, you will take your sins to the grave with you and leave your money behind to your kin.

There is hope of healing every hatred, save his that hates you out of envy.

Faith is the essence of Torah.

There is nothing greater than faith.

Whoso remembers the blemishes of others is the one himself blemished.

Do not offer your food to one who has no appetite for it!

A friendless man is like a right hand without the left.

There is no treasure like friends.

Friends are of three kinds: one like food which one cannot do without; one like medicine which you may need now and then; and one like pestilence which no one needs at all.

The eye of the needle is not too narrow for two friends and the vastness of the world not enough for two enemies.

There is no wealth like health.

Eyesight is of no avail if the heart be blind.

Whose heart is narrow has a broad tongue.

Humiliate yourself so that God may raise you up!

Who is the laziest man on earth? The man too lazy to make friends; but even lazier [is] the man who made friends and lost them.

Two things will never mix: a good heart and stinginess.

Do not scoff at your fellow's error!

Moral preachings will avail nothing to the unintelligent.

A good name is the proudest of pedigrees.

What is the worst sickness? A bad neighbor.

Wisdom is the finest pedigree.

Pity the honorable man despised, the rich man beggared and the wise man fallen among fools!