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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Maimonides

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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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
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.
MAIMONIDES

Fight Hate Injury Knowledge Man Relationship Truth Wisdom
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.
MAIMONIDES

Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
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.
MAIMONIDES

Knowledge Understand Word
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.
MAIMONIDES

Himself Man View Youth
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
MAIMONIDES

Angel Mission Trust
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Truth
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
MAIMONIDES

Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
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.
MAIMONIDES

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.
MAIMONIDES

Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
MAIMONIDES

Acceptance Blessing Generosity
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
MAIMONIDES

Angel Body Force Self Love
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.
MAIMONIDES

Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand
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
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
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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Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

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