A truth does not become greater by repetition.
MAIMONIDESThe goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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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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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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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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 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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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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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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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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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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