A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
MAIMONIDESOne 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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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 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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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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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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