Quotes from Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

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

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

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

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

A tiny fly can choke a big man.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

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

A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Faith is the summit of the Torah.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.