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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.

Maimonides

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
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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Science Sick Tree
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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Philosophy Truth Virtue World
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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Equality Evil Goodness Man Philosophy See View World
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Generous Yourself
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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
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
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself

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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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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