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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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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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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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 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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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 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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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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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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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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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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