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.
MAIMONIDESNobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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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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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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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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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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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 so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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