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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.

Maimonides

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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Evil People Strength Suffering
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
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
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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Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
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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Community Fall Live Need Strength Yourself
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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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
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

Charity Hands Man Strength
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.
MAIMONIDES

Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
MAIMONIDES

Art One Liner Sick
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.
MAIMONIDES

Knowledge Understand Word
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
MAIMONIDES

Bed Heart Listen Yourself
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDES

Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
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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Believe Blessing Faith Myself Perfection
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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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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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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