Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
MAIMONIDESThose 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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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.
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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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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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