Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
MAIMONIDESGod who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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 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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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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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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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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