There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
MAIMONIDESIt is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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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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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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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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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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