"Who is rich? Who has a good wife." "Culture in woman is better than gold." "Woman's sense of shame is deeper than man's." "He who has no wife is not a complete man." "Israel was redeemed from Egypt on account of the virtue of its women." CHAPTER XXXVII. SAYINGS AND STORIES OF THE SAGES. (CONTINUED) Work. "Work dignifies the worker." "He enjoys life who lives by the work of his hands." "Work is more pleasing in God's sight than ancestral merit." "Strip a carcass in the street and take pay for it, and say not: 'I am a priest or a great man and this work is beneath me.'" The Fourth Commandment makes rest conditional on work. "God did not dwell in the midst of Israel till they had built a sanctuary." "Work must not be neglected for study." "He who says 'I have toiled and not found,' believe him not; he who says 'I have not toiled yet have I found,' believe him not." "Who does not bring his son up to a trade teaches him to be a robber." "It is well to add a trade to your studies to be free from sin." "Position cannot honor the man; the man must honor the position." "Famine passes by the workman's door." "Artisans need not interrupt their labors to rise before the passing scholars." "Rather be a menial than a dependent." Here is a characteristic bit of rabbinic _midrash_ on a Bible text: "The dove returned ... and in her mouth an olive leaf" (Gen. viii, 11):-- "She said to the Holy One: 'Rather let my food be as bitter as the olive, but received from Thy hands, than honey-sweet but dependent on the hand of man.'" "It is one's duty to support a slave crippled in his employ." "O, River Euphrates, why is thy current not heard? My deeds testify for me; what is sown at my shores will bloom in thirty days." "Judge by deeds not works." "Say little, do much." "Like a tree, man is known by his fruit." "Say not, 'I will do nothing,' because thou canst not do everything." "One good deed leadeth to another." "Thy works commend thee; thy works repel thee." "He who makes another perform a deed, is greater than the doer." "A worthy action done in this world anticipates and leads the doer to the world to come." "When God said to Adam, 'Thorns and thistles shall it (the earth) bring forth for thee,' Adam wept and said: 'Lord of the world, shall I and my ass eat from the same crib?' But when God further said, 'by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread,' Adam was cheered and comforted." Truth. "Truth is the seal of God." "Jerusalem was destroyed because of the lack of truth-telling people." "Who breaks his word is as one who worships an idol." "Thus is the liar punished: even when he speaks the truth, none hearken."