For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
MAIMONIDESConsequently 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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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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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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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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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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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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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 physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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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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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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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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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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 goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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