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If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool. -- I.l. Peretz
Ugliness is the greatest of all sins. -- I.l. Peretz
No one in our town ever really died, because no one in our town ever lived, or did good or evil. We had no saints or sinners, only daydreamers in the World of Illusion. -- I.l. Peretz
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"! -- I.l. Peretz
Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark. -- I.l. Peretz
We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction. -- I.l. Peretz
It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed. -- I.l. Peretz
[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole ... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed. -- I.l. Peretz
A stranger's rose is but a thorn. -- I.l. Peretz
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty. -- I.l. Peretz
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity? -- I.l. Peretz
[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics. -- I.l. Peretz
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. -- I.l. Peretz
Prosperity may be found in small as in big business. -- I.l. Peretz
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better. -- I.l. Peretz
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox. -- I.l. Peretz
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands! -- I.l. Peretz
To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth. -- I.l. Peretz
In this world it is very dangerous to be weak. -- I.l. Peretz
Time is change, transformation, evolution. -- I.l. Peretz
A heap of bricks is not yet a house. -- I.l. Peretz
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it. -- I.l. Peretz
The worst dog gets the best bone. -- I.l. Peretz
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen. -- I.l. Peretz
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile. -- I.l. Peretz