"Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezeritch, said to his disciple the holy Rabbi Zusya that in the service of God he should learn three things from a child and seven things from a thief.
"From a child he should learn
(1) always to be happy;
(2) never to sit idle;
(3) to cry for everything one wants.
"From a thief he should learn
(1) to work at night;
(2) if one cannot gain what one wants in one night to try
again the next night;
(3) to love one's co-workers just as thieves love each other;
(4) to be willing to risk one's life even for a little
thing;
(5) not to attach too much value to things, even though one has risked one's life for them, just as a thief will re-sell a stolen article at a fraction of its real value;
(6) to withstand all kinds of beatings and tortures but to remain what you are;
(7) to believe your work is worth while, and not to be willing to change it."
