I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
MAIMONIDESGive 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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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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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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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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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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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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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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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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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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