Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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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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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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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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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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