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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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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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Equality Evil Goodness Man Philosophy See View World
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
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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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
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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Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth
It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Fear God Hope Love Man Punishment Reward
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
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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Science Sick Tree
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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Charity Hands Man Strength
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
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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Easy Live Necessary

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 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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