14 Hillel the Elder Quotes

Hillel the Elder quotes

1. Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.

2. A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it.

1. Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.

2. Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

3. A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.

4. If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

5. Who does not grow, declines.

6. In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

7. If not you, who? If not now, when?

8. Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

9. The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

10. The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

11. If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?

12. Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee.