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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

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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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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
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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Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
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
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Action Goodness Important Purpose
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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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Generous Yourself
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDES

Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Angel Mission Trust
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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Body Man Philosophy Sin
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
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
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

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