Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
MAIMONIDESGiving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
MAIMONIDESEvery man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
MAIMONIDESNobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
MAIMONIDESTeach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDESHold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDESGod is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
MAIMONIDESIt 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.
MAIMONIDESYour purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDESThe 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.
MAIMONIDESTruth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
MAIMONIDESCommune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
MAIMONIDESFor 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.
MAIMONIDESThe goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDESIt 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.
MAIMONIDESAnticipate charity by preventing poverty.
MAIMONIDESThe 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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