It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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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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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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