The Fifty Sayings

Saying 18 They sought me and did not find me:
Lending has love as its beginning, and its end is strife
Saying 19 and enmity:
Everyone who restrains himself knocks upon the gates of salvation.

Saying Twenty

Three are never satisfied by three: the earth by much rain, the wilderness and the grave by burials, and women by the excitement of men.

Saying Twenty-one

He who has a noble lineage should guard it with good H deeds, for it is the son and the marrow.

Saying Twenty-two

Guard the door of your mouth and your speech, lest you become a corpse within yourself.

Saying Twenty-three

Anyone who sees his journey from youth to maturity will know that he shall travel from maturity to the state of old age.

Saying Twenty-four

Repentance is to the physicians just as medicine is to the for ailments ailments.

Saying Twenty-five