Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
MAIMONIDESEvery 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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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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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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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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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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