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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.

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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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Food Himself Man Philosophy Teaching Yourself
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
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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Body Doubt Health Humanity Sick Soul
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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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
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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Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
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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Easy Live Necessary
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
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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Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
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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Body Man Philosophy Sin
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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Doctor Food Goodness Help Light Religion Wine

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