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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

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
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
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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Education Himself Human Logic Mathematics Perfection
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand
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
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Alive Dog Himself Live Understand
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Action Goodness Important Purpose
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Act God Himself Quality
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
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
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

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