343 Hebrew Proverbs / Page 12
221. The beginning of sin is sweet; its end is bitter.
222. The best doctor is to be found in hell.
223. The best way to find happiness is not to search for it.
224. The book and the sword descended from heaven together.
225. The city, whose physician has the gout, is in a bad state.
226. The community is israel's rampart.
227. The costliest clock can show only sixty minutes in every hour.
228. The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
229. The cure for anxiety about the future is not nostalgia for the past.
230. The day is short and work lasts a long time.
231. The gambler breaks all of the ten commandments.
232. The greatest and rarest talent is to love everything good.
233. The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.
234. The greatest wisdom of all is kindness.
235. The heart sees better than the eye.
236. The hearts of fools are in their mouths but the mouths of the wise are in their hearts.
237. The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner.
238. The loftier and more distant the ideal, the greater its power to lift up the soul.
239. The milk of black goats and white goats is all the same.
240. The more money, the happier; the more wit, the happier.