It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
MAIMONIDESAstrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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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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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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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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For 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.
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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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Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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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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