Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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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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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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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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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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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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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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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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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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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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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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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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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There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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