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.
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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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.
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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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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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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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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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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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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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God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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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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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
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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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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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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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