Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDESAstrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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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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Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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