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Solomon ibn Gabirol
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol?
- → As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
- → If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
- → The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
- → A wise man's question contains half the answer.
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Pick the quote attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol.
- → As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
- → If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
- → Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
- → A wise man's question contains half the answer.
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Select the quotation attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol.
- → As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
- → If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
- → Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
- → The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
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One of these may be attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol. Which one?
- → To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
- → Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
- → Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
- → The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
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Which one of these belongs to Solomon ibn Gabirol?
- → Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
- → Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
- → The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
- → A wise man's question contains half the answer.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Solomon ibn Gabirol?
- → Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
- → In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
- → Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
- → One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol.
- → Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
- → Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
- → Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
- → Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Solomon ibn Gabirol. Which one?
- → I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
- → Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
- → Wickedness is its own punishment.
- → Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Solomon ibn Gabirol?
- → The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies.
- → A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
- → What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
- → A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol.
- → As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
- → And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
- → Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
- → One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
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