Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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