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If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who care about us is to hand over some maps that try to chart and guide others through the more disturbed regions of our internal world.


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THE TALMUD This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
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