Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDESNobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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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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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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The 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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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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