Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
MAIMONIDESLose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
MAIMONIDESYour purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDESAstrology 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.
MAIMONIDESDo not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
MAIMONIDESI 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.
MAIMONIDESIt is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
MAIMONIDESGod who preceded all existence is a refuge.
MAIMONIDESGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
MAIMONIDESA truth does not become greater by repetition.
MAIMONIDESThe whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
MAIMONIDESIf 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.
MAIMONIDESNobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
MAIMONIDESActions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
MAIMONIDESMan’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.
MAIMONIDESAnticipate charity by preventing poverty.
MAIMONIDESInspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDES