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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Maimonides

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
MAIMONIDES

Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDES

Philosophy Purpose Yourself
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
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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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
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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Charity Hands Man Strength
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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Philosophy Truth Virtue World
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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Evil People Strength Suffering
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
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Believe Existence Man Philosophy
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
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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Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering

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