PROVERBIAL SAYINGS AND TRADITIONS. DO not to others what you would not have others do to you. The ass complains of the cold even in July (Tamuz.). First learn and then teach.
Few are they who see their own faults. A single light answers as well for a hundred men as for one. Victuals prepared by many cooks will be neither hot nor cold. Truth lasts forever, but falsehood must vanish.
This is the punishment of the liar, that when he tells the truth nobody believes him. Use thy best vase to-day, for to-morrow it may, perchance, be broken. When Satan cannot come himself he sends wine as a messenger. Woe to the children banished from their father's table.
A handful of food will not satisfy the lion, neither can a pit be filled again with its own dust. Pray to God for mercy until the last shovelful of earth is cast upon thy grave. Cease not to pray even when the knife is laid upon thy neck.