There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
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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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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 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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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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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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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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