Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
MAIMONIDESAstrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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 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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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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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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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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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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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There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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