A truth does not become greater by repetition.
MAIMONIDESThere are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
More Maimonides Quotes
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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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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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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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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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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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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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