The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDESInspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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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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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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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 realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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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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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 physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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