Hear the truth from whomever says it.
MAIMONIDESGiving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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 soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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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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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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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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It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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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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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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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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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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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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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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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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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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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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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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