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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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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
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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Body Far Force Soul Spiritual
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
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
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
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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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Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction
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
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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Food Himself Man Philosophy Teaching Yourself
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself

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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