Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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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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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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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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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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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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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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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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