Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
MAIMONIDESGiving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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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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It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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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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The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
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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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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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