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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.

Maimonides

All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Act God Himself Quality
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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Himself Man View Youth
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
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
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself
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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Community Fall Live Need Strength Yourself
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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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
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
God cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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Body Far Force Soul Spiritual

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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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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