Jewish proverbs

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The true taste of water is known in the desert.
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It is easy to love humanity, but hard to love people.
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If you have lost anything, consider that you gave it to a poor person.
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What soup is to the body, tears are to the soul.
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Evil tongues wound threefold: the one who speaks, the one spoken of, and the one who listens.
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I do not ask for a lighter load, but for a broader shoulder.
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An empty stomach hates long sermons.
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A fool says what he knows; a wise man knows what he says.
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There was never a good war or a bad peace.
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Better to pray briefly from the heart than to babble words for hours.
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What you have not seen with your own eyes, do not testify to with your mouth.
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The human heart and the depths of the sea are unfathomable.
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There are two who truly know a person: the Creator of the world, and his wife.
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Teach your tongue to say, 'I do not know.' For otherwise you may be caught in a lie and pinned down by it.
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If a book is bad, nothing in the world can make it last forever; if it is good, no king can destroy it.
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As a person's hidden thoughts are, so is he.
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Do not make yourself so great — you are not that small!
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Be wise not in words, but in deeds.
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice.
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Whoever has not seen Herod's building (the Temple) has never seen anything beautiful.
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