A garland of quotations V

This Torah is like two paths, one of sunlight, and one of snow.
Take the one and die of sun, take the other and die in the snow.
What to do? Walk between the two.
•Yerushalmi, Hagigah, 77a.

By God! What is this world compared with the Hereafter! It is like dipping your finger in the sea; look how little remains on it when you withdraw it!
•Tabrizi, Mishkat al-Masâbih (C14).

God does not do the same thing twice.
•Richard Adams, Shardik (1974).

…for than the he deth swa swa hine sylfe gewyrth, and he nænn...