It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
MAIMONIDESIn 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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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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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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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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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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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