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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.

Maimonides

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
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
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Fight Hate Injury Knowledge Man Relationship Truth Wisdom
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
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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Philosophy Truth Virtue World
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
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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Body Doubt Health Humanity Sick Soul
It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Fear God Hope Love Man Punishment Reward
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
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
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
God cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
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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Change Character Doubt God Intellectual Knowledge Law Man Mindset Ourselves Present Principle Result Support
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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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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