The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
MAIMONIDESLet nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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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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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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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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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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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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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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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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