A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
MAIMONIDESAll attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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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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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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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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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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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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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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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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