GOD AND MAN
RABBI AKIBA[81] said: Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God; but it was by a special love that it was made known to him that he was created in the image of God.
Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is given; and the world is judged by grace, yet all is according to the amount of the work.
BEN AZZAI[82] said: Despise not any man, and carp not at anything; for there is not a man that has not his hour, and there is not a thing that has not its place.
HILLEL[83] said: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being for myself only, what am I? and, if not now, when?
Separate not thyself from the community. Trust not in thyself until the day of thy death. Judge not thy neighbour until thou art come into his place.
ETHICS OF THE FATHERS.