Solomon Ibn Gabirol Quotes

» My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

» Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

» I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

» Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

» The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

» The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

» Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

» As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

» If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

» Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

» As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

» 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.

» One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

» All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

» Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

» Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

» A wise man's question contains half the answer.

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