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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.

Maimonides

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
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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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
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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Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
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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Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth

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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