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.
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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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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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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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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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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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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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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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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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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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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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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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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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 should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
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