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.
MAIMONIDESGiving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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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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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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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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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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