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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

Maimonides

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.
MAIMONIDES

Believe Existence Man Philosophy
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
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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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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Book Evidence Lie Writing
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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Equality Evil Goodness Man Philosophy See View World
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
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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Fight Hate Injury Knowledge Man Relationship Truth Wisdom
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
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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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
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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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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Doctor Food Goodness Help Light Religion Wine
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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Body Man Philosophy Sin
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself
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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Philosophy Truth Virtue World

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