All forces that reside in the body are angels.
MAIMONIDESFor that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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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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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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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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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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