## Mivchar HaPeninim Chapter 29

###### Mivchar HaPeninim 29:1
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אמר החכם כל דבר שתסתיר אותו משנאך אל תגלהו לאוהבך:

**A Choice of Pearls, English translation by B.H. Ascher, London 1859:**
315. THE sage has said, Disclose not that to thy friend which thou wouldst conceal from thine enemy.


###### Mivchar HaPeninim 29:2
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ואמר כי איש אחד גילה [סוד] לאהבו. אמר לו הבנת? אמר לו הן הבנתי אבל שכחתי:

**A Choice of Pearls, English translation by B.H. Ascher, London 1859:**
316. There was a man who, after confiding a secret to his friend, asked him if he understood him. Yes, replied the other, but I have since forgotten it.


###### Mivchar HaPeninim 29:3
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ושאל לחכם איזהו הסתרת הסוד? אמר אכחיד המגיד ואסתיר ההגדה:

**A Choice of Pearls, English translation by B.H. Ascher, London 1859:**
317. He was asked, How to conceal a secret effectually. Said he, I make my heart its tomb.


###### Mivchar HaPeninim 29:4
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ושאלו לחכם האיך הסתרת הסוד? אמר שמתי לבי קברו:

**A Choice of Pearls, English translation by B.H. Ascher, London 1859:**
318. The sage was asked the surest means of keeping a secret. His reply was, I chide the narrator and hide the narration.


###### Mivchar HaPeninim 29:5
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ואמר החכם לא גילה לי אדם מעולם סוד שהפקדתיו והאשמתיו. אבל האשמתי את לבי מפני שהיה צר יותר להכילו בעת שהפקדתיו בלבו:

**A Choice of Pearls, English translation by B.H. Ascher, London 1859:**
319. I never, said the sage, condemned the betrayer of my entrusted secret, but reproached mine own heart, which was too narrow to retain it, and led me to deposit it in his.


###### Mivchar HaPeninim 29:6
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ואמר מי שלבו צר. לשונו רחב:

**A Choice of Pearls, English translation by B.H. Ascher, London 1859:**
320. A narrow mind has a broad tongue.


###### Mivchar HaPeninim 29:7
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ואמר סודך אסירך. ואם תגלהו תהיה אסירו:

**A Choice of Pearls, English translation by B.H. Ascher, London 1859:**
321. He used to say, An unrevealed secret is thy captive, but disclosed it is thy captor.


###### Mivchar HaPeninim 29:8
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ואמר הסוד [מה שיהי] בין שנים. ובשלשה אינו נסתר:

**A Choice of Pearls, English translation by B.H. Ascher, London 1859:**
322. That only is a secret which lies between two; with three it ceases to be so.