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.
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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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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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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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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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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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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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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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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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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