Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDESAll forces that reside in the body are angels.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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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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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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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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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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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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