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

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

- 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

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol