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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Maimonides

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.
MAIMONIDES

Charity Hands Man Strength
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
MAIMONIDES

Existence God Home
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDES

Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
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.
MAIMONIDES

Equality Evil Goodness Man Philosophy See View World
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.
MAIMONIDES

Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
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.
MAIMONIDES

Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
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.
MAIMONIDES

Believe Existence Man Philosophy
Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Word Yourself
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.
MAIMONIDES

Philosophy Truth Virtue World
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDES

Philosophy Purpose Yourself
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
MAIMONIDES

Action Goodness Important Purpose
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
MAIMONIDES

Doctor Sick Suffering
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDES

Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
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.
MAIMONIDES

Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
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.
MAIMONIDES

Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
MAIMONIDES

Kindness Language Word

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

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