“The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.”

Teachers learn from their students’ discussions

Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.

Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

Receive all with simplicity that happens to you

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.

Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.

We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!