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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.

Maimonides

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
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
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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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
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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Fight Hate Injury Knowledge Man Relationship Truth Wisdom
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
MAIMONIDES

Community Fall Live Need Strength Yourself
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Generous Yourself
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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Charity Hands Man Strength
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
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
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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Disease Fools Science Sick Tree Value
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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Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman

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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