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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

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.
MAIMONIDES

Body Man Philosophy Sin
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.
MAIMONIDES

Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
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.
MAIMONIDES

Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Truth
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.
MAIMONIDES

Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
MAIMONIDES

Believe Existence Man Philosophy
God cannot be compared to anything.
MAIMONIDES

God One Liner
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
MAIMONIDES

Decision Deep Risk Wrong
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
MAIMONIDES

Bed Heart Listen Yourself
Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Word Yourself
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
MAIMONIDES

Kindness Language Word
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
MAIMONIDES

Existence God Home
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
MAIMONIDES

Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDES

Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
MAIMONIDES

Action Goodness Important Purpose
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
MAIMONIDES

Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand

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