There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen appart. There are people who's remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow.
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
Customs are more powerful than laws.
Do not decide that someone is good until you see how he or she acts at home.
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.
When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.
Learning is achieved only in company.
He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
Doubt cannot override a certainty.
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.
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