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.
MAIMONIDESContrast 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.
More Maimonides Quotes
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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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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