16 Quotes by Hillel the Elder

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

Take care of yourself – you never know when the world will need you.

If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

What you yourself hate, don’t do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.

A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.

Do not say, ‘When I have leisure, I will study,’ because you may never have leisure.

Who does not grow, declines.

Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee.

The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.