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One 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.

Maimonides

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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Easy Live Necessary
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
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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Change Character Doubt God Intellectual Knowledge Law Man Mindset Ourselves Present Principle Result Support
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
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.
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Knowledge Understand Word
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDES

Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
MAIMONIDES

Character Lie Man Wisdom
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
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
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
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.
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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Nature Necessary Purpose

One 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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One 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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