Proverb Quotes

A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by others.

Do not despise an insignificant enemy or a slight wound.

If your desires be endless, your cares will be so too.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Guard yourself from despondency above all, for it is worse and more harmful than sin. When the Evil Urge wakens desires in man, he is not concerned with plunging him into sin, but with plunging him into despondency by way of his sinning.

Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.

He who denies all confesses all.

To leave a place is to die a little.

There is no departing from the words of the law.

Visits always give pleasure – if not the arrival, the departure.