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In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

The worst dog gets the best bone.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.