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It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Nature Necessary Purpose
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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Food Himself Man Philosophy Teaching Yourself
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
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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Charity Hands Man Strength
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
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
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
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
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

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