What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
MAIMONIDESTeach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
More Maimonides Quotes
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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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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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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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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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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Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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