Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
MAIMONIDESMan’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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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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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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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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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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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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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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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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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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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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