The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
MAIMONIDESIt 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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There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
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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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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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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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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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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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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