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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Maimonides

It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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Doctor Food Goodness Help Light Religion Wine
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
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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Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand
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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Body Man Philosophy Sin
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
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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Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Food Himself Man Philosophy Teaching Yourself
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
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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Education Himself Human Logic Mathematics Perfection

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