Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Hillel the Elder
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.
Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
If not you, who? If not now, when?
A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.
Say not: “When I have free time I shall study”, for you may perhaps never have any free time
Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.
In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.
What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.
Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee.
Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?
The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.
Who does not grow, declines.
The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.
One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.
