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.
MAIMONIDESThose 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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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Consequently 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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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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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