Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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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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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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.
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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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I 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.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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Medical 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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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Hear the truth from whomever says 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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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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