Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
MAIMONIDESFor that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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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.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Every 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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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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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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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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