I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
MAIMONIDESThe physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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