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.
MAIMONIDESContrast 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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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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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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