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.
MAIMONIDESCommune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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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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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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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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