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

Maimonides

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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Science Sick Tree
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
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
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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Education Himself Human Logic Mathematics Perfection
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
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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Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction
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
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
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Angel Mission Trust
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.
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Easy Live Necessary
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
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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Doctor Food Goodness Help Light Religion Wine
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
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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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
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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Charity Hands Man Strength

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

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