Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
More Yiddish Proverbs:
Rejoice not at your enemy's fall, but don't pick him up, either.
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God loves the poor and helps the rich.
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If I dealt in candles, the sun wouldn't set; if I dealt in shrouds, people would stop dying.
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Hope may give a man strength, but not sense.
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Hope may give a man strength, but not sense.
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