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.
MAIMONIDESLet nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
More Maimonides Quotes
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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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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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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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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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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