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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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God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
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
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
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
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
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
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Nature Necessary Purpose
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
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
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
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
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
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
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
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
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home

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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