Hold firmly to your word.
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More Maimonides Quotes
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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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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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 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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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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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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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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