Maimonides on destroy
Maimonides71 quotes“I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.”
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
MaimonidesMaimonides Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
MaimonidesMaimonides It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides All forces that reside in the body are angels.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
MaimonidesMaimonides The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
MaimonidesMaimonides The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
MaimonidesMaimonides God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
MaimonidesMaimonides Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
MaimonidesMaimonides God cannot be compared to anything.
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Jane GoodallJane Goodall United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
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