Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
MAIMONIDESThere 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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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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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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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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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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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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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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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 goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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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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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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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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