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 illn…

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

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

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol