Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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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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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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In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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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.
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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 physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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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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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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