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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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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
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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Philosophy Truth Virtue World
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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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
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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Evil People Strength Suffering
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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Believe Blessing Faith Myself Perfection
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
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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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Fear God Hope Love Man Punishment Reward

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