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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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For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
MAIMONIDES

Community Fall Live Need Strength Yourself
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
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
Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Word Yourself
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
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
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Angel Mission Trust
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
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
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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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
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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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
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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Charity Hands Man Strength
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop

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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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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