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Friday, July 9, 2010

Not Found in the Bible (Anywhere!)


"God helps those who help themselves"
  • The saying is not biblical, although it is an ancient proverb that shows up in the literature of many cultures, including a 1736 edition of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac. "There is a Rabbinic saying: "One who comes to be purified is helped." which is quite similar.
  • This is more or less identical to the message in one of the Aesops-fables, about a man praying to Hercules.
  • The saying is also faound in Xenophon's masterpiece about Cyrus, Cyropaedia.
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