Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
MAIMONIDESGiving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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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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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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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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