The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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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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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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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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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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