He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
MAIMONIDESGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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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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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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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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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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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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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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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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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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