Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
MAIMONIDESNobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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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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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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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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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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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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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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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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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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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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