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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Maimonides

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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Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
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Change Character Doubt God Intellectual Knowledge Law Man Mindset Ourselves Present Principle Result Support
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Action Goodness Important Purpose
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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Body Man Philosophy Sin
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
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
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth
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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Food Himself Man Philosophy Teaching Yourself
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Fight Hate Injury Knowledge Man Relationship Truth Wisdom
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Alive Dog Himself Live 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
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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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
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
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
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
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
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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Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
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
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth

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