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Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Come back, before I am grown into a very old man, so as you shall hardly know me.

Formerly, I thought that death was wearing out,--I stood ramparted about with so many healthy friends.

My heart is as dry as that spring sometimes proves in a thirsty August, when I revert to the space that is between us; a length of passage enough to render obsolete the phrases of our English letters before they can reach you.

The partners, and the clerks, with whom I had for so many years, and for so many hours in each day of the year, been closely associated--being suddenly removed from them--they seemed as dead to me.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.

Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.