Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
MAIMONIDESGiving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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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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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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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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.
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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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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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