Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
MAIMONIDESI 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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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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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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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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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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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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