Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
MAIMONIDESThe 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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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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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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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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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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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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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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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