Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDESNobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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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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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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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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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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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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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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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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