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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.

Maimonides

In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Generous Yourself
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDES

Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
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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Evil People Strength Suffering
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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Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman
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.
MAIMONIDES

Easy Live Necessary
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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Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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Body Far Force Soul Spiritual
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Nature Necessary Purpose
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
MAIMONIDES

Food Himself Man Philosophy Teaching Yourself
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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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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Disease Fools Science Sick Tree Value
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Act God Himself Quality
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
MAIMONIDES

Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Alive Dog Himself Live Understand

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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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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