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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

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
There 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.
MAIMONIDES

Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDES

Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
MAIMONIDES

Angel Body Force Self Love
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.
MAIMONIDES

Easy Live Necessary
Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Word Yourself
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
MAIMONIDES

Acceptance Blessing Generosity
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
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.
MAIMONIDES

Evil People Strength Suffering
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
MAIMONIDES

Charity Poor
It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
MAIMONIDES

Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Silence Wisdom
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
MAIMONIDES

Alive Dog Himself Live Understand
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
MAIMONIDES

Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
MAIMONIDES

Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
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

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