Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
MAIMONIDESThe risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
More Maimonides Quotes
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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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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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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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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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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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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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