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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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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
MAIMONIDES

Nature Necessary Purpose
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
MAIMONIDES

Character Lie Man Wisdom
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
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDES

Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
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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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
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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Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
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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Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Word Yourself
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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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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Education Himself Human Logic Mathematics Perfection
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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
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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Disease Fools Science Sick Tree Value

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