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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

Maimonides

It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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Doctor Food Goodness Help Light Religion Wine
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
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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Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
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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Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
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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Himself Man View Youth
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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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
God cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
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.
MAIMONIDES

Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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Equality Evil Goodness Man Philosophy See View World
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth

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