God cannot be compared to anything.
MAIMONIDESThere 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.
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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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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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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.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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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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