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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.
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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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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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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 risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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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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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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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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