Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
– Babylonian Talmud
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
– Babylonian Talmud
Customs are more powerful than laws.
– Babylonian Talmud
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
– Babylonian Talmud
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
– Babylonian Talmud
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
– Babylonian Talmud
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.