Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
MAIMONIDESA wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
More Maimonides Quotes
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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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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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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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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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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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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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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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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