There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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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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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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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 is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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 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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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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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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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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