I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
MAIMONIDESIn the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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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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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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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 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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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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Truth 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.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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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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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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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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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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It 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.
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