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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.

Maimonides

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDES

Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
MAIMONIDES

Bed Heart Listen Yourself
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
MAIMONIDES

Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
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.
MAIMONIDES

Easy Live Necessary
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
MAIMONIDES

Beginning Need Philosophy
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
MAIMONIDES

Angel Mission Trust
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
MAIMONIDES

Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Word Yourself
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.
MAIMONIDES

Philosophy Truth Virtue World
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
MAIMONIDES

Act God Himself Quality
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
MAIMONIDES

Knowledge Understand Word
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
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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Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman
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.
MAIMONIDES

Disease Fools Science Sick Tree Value
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
MAIMONIDES

Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction

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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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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