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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Act God Himself Quality
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
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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Believe Existence Man Philosophy
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
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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Education Himself Human Logic Mathematics Perfection
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
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Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman
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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Easy Live Necessary
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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Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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Himself Man View Youth
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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Science Sick Tree
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor

Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

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