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

Maimonides

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
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
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
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
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
God cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
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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Book Evidence Lie Writing
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
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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Believe Existence Man Philosophy
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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Himself Man View Youth
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
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 goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom

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