Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDESHear the truth from whomever says it.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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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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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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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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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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