The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
Misfortune may become fortune through patience.
A tiny fly can choke a big man.
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.
If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don’t disclose it to your friend.
Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can’t live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
A wise man’s questions contain half the answer.
Drink poison rather than worry.
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.