Nuggets of Wisdom

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls;

It is possible to give away and become richer! It is also possible to hold on too tightly and lose everything. Yes, the liberal man shall be rich! By watering others, he waters himself.

If you are intelligent, you will be praised; if you are stupid, people will look down on you.

11 There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers; 12 those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth; 13 those whose eyes are ever so haughty, whose glances are so disdainful; 14 those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

2 When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

21 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.

2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

14 Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.