Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
MAIMONIDESHold firmly to your word.
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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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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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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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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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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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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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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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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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