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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

Maimonides

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Fear God Hope Love Man Punishment Reward
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Act God Himself Quality
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
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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Knowledge Understand Word
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
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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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
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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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth

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