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.
MAIMONIDESGiving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
More Maimonides Quotes
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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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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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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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 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 same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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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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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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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