One who hosts a Torah scholar in his home is regarded by Scripture as though he offered the daily sacrifices.
Sefer HaMidos, Hospitality, Part I §5
One who is humble can cry out from the heart in his prayer.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part I §69
When a person learns until he grows weary, he thereby sweetens judgments and arouses mercy;
through this he also arouses mercy for his father in the grave.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part II §13
When you cause some damage, it is a sign that the yetzer hara rules over you.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §57
Fear comes through anger.
Sefer HaMidos, Fear, Part I §30
One must feel gratitude toward the giver;
do not say that he did not give you from his own.
Sefer HaMidos, Charity, Part I §13
One who is sad should look at the tzaddikim, and joy will come into his heart.
Sefer HaMidos, Depression, Part I §6
Through having a fixed place for prayer one comes to humility and chassidus.
Sefer HaMidos, Humility, Part I §4
Those liable to kares who received lashes are released from their kares.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §13
It is permitted to alter the truth for the sake of peace.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part I §2
A rav who teaches his students in this way, not teaching them all alike, but teaching each one what he needs, no less and no more, merits through this to reveal the beautiful and praiseworthy faces of the Torah.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part II §8
One who is humble in spirit is as if he offered all the offerings.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §7
One who lends people the things they need will escape when there is flight in the world.
Sefer HaMidos, Peace, Part I §15
Prayer is greater than good deeds and than the offerings.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part I §42
Through a song of joy you will become a person of understanding.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §32
In a city whose people take care not to go beyond the Shabbos boundary, meat is cheap.
Sefer HaMidos, The Sabbath, Part I §3
A man of truth can recognize in another whether he is speaking falsehood or not.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part I §9
A man of truth can recognize in another whether he is speaking the truth or not.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §55
When you see a liar, know that this man's leader is also a liar.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part II §3
Through truth the End comes.
Sefer HaMidos, The Messiah, Part I §4
The wise can grasp through wisdom many things that natural intellect cannot grasp.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §12
Emunah depends on a person's mouth.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §10
The conversation a person holds between himself and his Maker later becomes redemption and salvation for his children.
Sefer HaMidos, Seclusion, Part II §1
Through tzedakah the fruits grow.
Sefer HaMidos, Charity, Part I §33
Through hospitality to guests, one's awe is cast upon others.
Sefer HaMidos, Hospitality, Part II §1
Arrogance holds back Moshiach and drives a person out of the world.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §39
Whoever adds, detracts.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part I §5
One who has coarseness of spirit will in the end stumble with a married woman. He is like one who worships idols, as if he denied the very foundation of faith, as if he transgressed all the forbidden relations, and as if he built a private altar. He is diminished in stature until he is no more.
He deserves to be cut down like an idolatrous tree, his dust will not be stirred [at the Resurrection], and the Shechinah laments over him.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §25
One who has lost his emunah should go to the graves of Jews and recount the kindnesses the Holy One, blessed be He, has done for him.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §9
Through tzedakah for its own sake, you will merit Torah for its own sake.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §78
Aggadah gladdens a person.
Sefer HaMidos, Depression, Part I §36
Eating and drinking lead to arrogance.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §16
Moshiach will not come until all the souls in the Guf [the heavenly treasury of souls] are exhausted.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §52
Through serving tzaddikim, one comes to fear of Heaven, and the reverse is also true.
Sefer HaMidos, Fear of God, Part I §9
Because one does not ask for mercy for his friend, he falls into imprisonment;
and the remedy for imprisonment is to feed some living creature.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part II §1
He also merits to become renowned among the nations.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §38
One who overlooks the wrongs done to him, all his transgressions are overlooked.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §98
Whoever is haughty, his wisdom and his prophecy depart from him.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §20
Flattery leads to heresy.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §2
Through humility one lengthens his days.
Sefer HaMidos, Humility, Part I §7
Through truth, too, you will merit this.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §15
Through arrogance, famine comes to the world.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §3
When plants grow to their fullness, there is love in the world.
Sefer HaMidos, Love, Part II §1
Through jealousy, one comes to anger.
Sefer HaMidos, Anger, Part I §22
Through movements of the body comes fervor of the heart.
Sefer HaMidos, Joy and Happiness, Part I §18
Through teshuvah out of fear, deliberate sins become like unintentional ones;
through teshuvah out of love, they become like merits.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §94
Weeping is a good sign for a sick person.
Sefer HaMidos, Depression, Part I §22
Anger makes a person fearful.
Sefer HaMidos, Anger, Part I §41
A rich man who lies: the mind cannot bear him, and he is also despicable in his own eyes.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §58
One who does acts of kindness does not need the merit of his forefathers.
Sefer HaMidos, Charity, Part II §12
One who lacks trust in Hashem speaks lies, and because of the lies he cannot truly trust.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part I §29
A haughty person is blemished.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §23
One who helps the poor has the power to humble the arrogant by merely looking at them.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §9
A woman who is careful with the mitzvah of challah will have children who are people of faith.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §14
One must fast when the tzaddik is caused pain.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §22
Through Tikkun Chatzos, one reminds Hashem of the good He promised Israel.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part I §58
One who is in the habit of cursing will, because of it, have no clothes for Shabbos.
Sefer HaMidos, The Sabbath, Part I §2
The sign of falsehood is that the many do not agree to it.
The liar is one of the three whom the Holy One, blessed be He, hates.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part I §10
Whoever becomes angry at a respectable poor person, it is as though he provoked Hashem.
Sefer HaMidos, Anger, Part I §29
Through humility he is granted greatness upon greatness.
Sefer HaMidos, Humility, Part I §6