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.
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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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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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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For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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