Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDESAstrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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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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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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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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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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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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.
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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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