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.
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.
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For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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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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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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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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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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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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