(71 quotes found)
“Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.”
The Talmud
“Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.”
“Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act”
“Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession”
“When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert”
“Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.”
“A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.”
“How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened”
“Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence”
“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.”