He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
MAIMONIDESAll forces that reside in the body are angels.
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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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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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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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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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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