Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
MAIMONIDESMedical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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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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The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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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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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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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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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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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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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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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