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All forces that reside in the body are angels.

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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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Body Man Philosophy Sin
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
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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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
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
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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
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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Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman
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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Community Fall Live Need Strength Yourself
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Food Himself Man Philosophy Teaching Yourself
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Action Goodness Important Purpose
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
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Believe Existence Man Philosophy
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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Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand

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